Fire in the City
Subtitle: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 13, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780195327106
First sentence: IN THE FINAL MONTHS of Savonarola's life - it was early 1498 - a plot was concocted to blow him up in the cathedral of Florence, as his great preacher's voice boomed forth from the pulpit to thousands of listeners.