The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope
By Unknown Author.
Description
In the 1490s, Girolamo Savonarola, a visionary friar, dominated Renaissance Florence, terrifying the city with his uncannily accurate prophecies. Best remembered for his 'burning of the vanities' - the destruction of 'profane art' in public bonfires - Savonarola has often been caricatured as a hell-fire fanatic. Yet Victorian England saw him as an Italian Martin Luther, while his career inspired George Eliot's novel, Romola. Acclaimed author Desmond Seward casts new light on this controversial and contradictory figure. Savonarola prophesied the French invasion of It...
ISBN(s)
0750929812, 9780750929813
