Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-321) and index.
Contents
Chorus -- Vile bodies: 1472-1490 -- The friar returns: 1490-1491 -- The wait: 1492-1494 -- Fear and loathing: November 1494 -- Holy liberty -- Stamping out tyranny: 1494-1495 -- God and politics -- Angels and enforcers: 1496-1498 -- The Pope and the friar: 1495-1497 -- The Savonarolan moment -- Wailers and bigots -- Excommunication: May-June 1497 -- Five executions: August 1497 -- Rome closes in -- Foiled fire -- The siege of San Marco: April 1498 -- Confessions of a sinner -- Fire again: three executions: May 1498 -- The conscience of a city.