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Author Martines, Lauro.

Title Fire in the city : Savonarola and the struggle for the soul of Renaissance Florence / by Lauro Martines.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  DG737.97 .M3 2006    Available  ---
Description xvi, 336 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.
Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) -- Church history.
Reformers -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography.
Reformers.
Italy -- Florence.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Dominicans -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography.
Dominicans.
Florence (Italy) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0195177487 alkaline paper
9780195177480 alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780195177480