Savonarola's women
Subtitle: visions and reform in Renaissance Italy
By: Tamar Herzig
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780226329154
Subjects: Savonarola, Girolamo, -- 1452-1498; Women prophets -- Italy, Northern -- History -- 16th century; Italy, Northern -- Church history -- 16th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-315) and index
Table of contents: title: Girolamo Savonarola and his women followers; title: "The chain of succession" : Colomba Guadagnoli and her saintly emulators; title: The prophet's following in his own town : Savonarolism in Ferrrara; title: The power of visions : Lucia Brocadelli and Osanna Andreasi; title: The crisis years : 1505-18; title: Recuperation and decline