Fire in the City
A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides a remarkably fresh perspective on Girolamo 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
361 pages, 4 editions
English edition · First published 2006 by Oxford University Press · ISBN 9781429420327
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4 editions
English
- Fire in the city · Oxford University Press · 2006 · ISBN 9781429420327 This page
- Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence · Oxford University Press · 2006 · ISBN 9781280845048
- Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence · Oxford University Press · 2006 · ISBN 9780199884308
- Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence · Oxford University Press · 2006 · ISBN 9780198039495
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