Lauro Martines

Fire in the City (eBook, ePUB)

Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Girolamo 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 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 he represented. Here, Savonarola emerges as a complex and subtle man, both a religious and a civic leader--who 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--such as Brunelleschi's Dome or Galileo's Daughter, and Martines's acclaimed April Blood--Fire in the City offers a vivid portrait of one of the most memorable characters from that dazzling era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199884308
• Artikelnr.: 38132673

Autorenporträt

Lauro Martines is Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. A renowned scholar of Renaissance Italy, he now writes regularly for The Times Literary Supplement. The author of April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici, he lives in London with his wife, the novelist Julia O'Faolian. His novel of Renaissance Italy, Loredana, won the Sagittarius Prize for 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgment * List of Illustrations * An X
Ray of Florentine Government * Glossary of Terms * Ch. 1
Chorus * Ch. 2
Vile Bodies: 1472
1490 * Ch. 3
The Friar Returns: 1490
1491 * Ch. 4
The Wait: 1492
1494 * Ch. 5
Fear and Loathing: November 1494 * Ch. 6
Holt Liberty * Ch. 7
Stamping out Tyranny: 1494
1495 * Ch. 8
God and Politics * Ch. 9
Angels and Enforcers: 1496
1498 * Ch. 10
The Pope and the Friar: 1495
1497 * Ch. 11
The Savonrolan Moment * Ch. 12
Wailers and Bigots * Ch. 13
Excommunication: May
June 1497 * Ch. 14
Five Executions: August 1497 * Ch. 15
Rome Closes In * Ch. 16
Foiled Fire * Ch. 17
The Siege of San Marco: April 1498 * Ch. 18
Confessions of a Sinner * Ch. 19
Fire Again: Three Executions: May 1498 * Ch. 20
The Conscience of a City * Notes * Bibliography * Index