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    Death in Florence : the Medici, Savonarola, and the battle for the soul of a Renaissance city / Paul Strathern.
    by Strathern, Paul, 1940- author.
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  • Medici, Lorenzo de', 1449-1492.
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  • Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.
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  • Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence.
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  • Florence (Italy) -- History.
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  • Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government.
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  • Italy -- Florence.
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  • History.
  • Publisher Info: 
    New York ; London : Pegasus Books, 2015.
    ©2015
    Edition: 
    First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
    Description: 
    xv, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
    RDA Types: 
    text
    unmediated
    volume
    ISBN: 
    9781605988269
    160598826X
    Contents: 
    Prologue: 'The needle of the Italian compass' -- A Prince in All but Name -- 'Blind wickedness' -- Lorenzo's Florence -- Securing the Medici Dynasty -- Pico's Challenge -- The Return of Savonarola -- Cat and Mouse -- The End of an Era -- Noah's Ark -- A Bid for Independence -- 'Italy faced hard times ... beneath stars hostile to her good' -- 'I will destroy all flesh' -- Humiliation -- A New Government -- The Voices of Florence -- 'A bolt from the blue' -- The Bonfire of the Vanities -- 'On suspicion of heresy' -- Open Defiance -- The Tables are Turned -- Ordeal by Fire -- The Siege of San Marco -- Trial and Torture -- Judgment -- Hanged and Burned -- Aftermath.
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    "One of the defining moments in Western history, the bloody and dramatic story of the battle for the soul of Renaissance Florence"--
    "By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances between the major Italian powers. However, in the form of Savonarola, an unprepossessing provincial monk, Lorenzo found his nemesis. Filled with Old Testament fury and prophecies of doom, Savonarola's sermons reverberated among a disenfranchised population, who preferred medieval Biblical certainties to the philosophical interrogations and intoxicating surface glitter of the Renaissance. Savonarola's aim was to establish a 'City of God' for his followers, a new kind of democratic state, the likes of which the world had never seen before. The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events--invasions, trials by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths--featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures. Was this a simple clash of wills between a benign ruler and religious fanatic? Between secular pluralism and repressive extremism? In an exhilaratingly rich and deeply researched story, Paul Strathern reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts, and political compromises that made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history"--
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