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024 3 $a9780195177480
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050 00 $aDG737.97$b.M3 2006
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100 1 $aMartines, Lauro.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84182735
245 10 $aFire in the city :$bSavonarola and the struggle for Renaissance Florence /$cLauro Martines.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2006.
300 $axvi, 336 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-321) and index.
520 1 $a"Fire in the City presents an account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Girolamo Savonarola." "Lauro Martines, a historian of Renaissance Italy, here provides a fresh perspective on Savonarola, the preacher and agitator who flamed like a comet through late fifteenth-century Florence. The Dominican friar has long been portrayed as a dour, puritanical demagogue who urged his followers to burn their worldly goods in "the bonfire of the vanities." But as Martines shows, this is a caricature of the truth - the version propagated by the wealthy and powerful who feared the political reforms Savonarola represented. In fact, Savonarola emerges as a complex and subtle man: compassionate, wise, a poet and scholar, and even, at critical moments, a force for moderation. The friar, a mesmerizing preacher, set the city afire with his message of Christian charity wedded to republican ideals." "It is this reality - of Savonarola as both religious and civic leader - that Martines captures in all its complexity, showing how he inspired an outpouring of political debate in a city newly freed from the tyranny of the Medici. In the end the volatile passions he unleashed - and the powerful families he threatened - sent the Friar to his own fiery death. But the fusion of morality and politics that he represented would leave a lasting mark on Renaissance Florence." "For the many readers fascinated by histories of Renaissance Italy, Fire in the City offers a portrait of one of the most memorable characters from that dazzling era."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aSavonarola, Girolamo,$d1452-1498.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50080411
651 0 $aFlorence (Italy)$xHistory$y1421-1737.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049196
651 0 $aFlorence (Italy)$xPolitics and government$y1421-1737.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049203
651 0 $aFlorence (Italy)$xChurch history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115036
650 0 $aReformers$zItaly$zFlorence$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010110379
610 20 $aDominicans$zItaly$zFlorence$vBiography.
651 0 $aFlorence (Italy)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115035
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005031802.html
852 00 $bglx$hDG737.97$i.M3 2006
852 00 $bbar$hDG737.97$i.M3 2006