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The Preacher's Demons : Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy
The Preacher's Demons Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy
Author: Franco Mormando
"When the city was filled with these bonfires, he then combed the city, and whenever he received notice of some public sodomite, he had him immediately seized and thrown into the nearest bonfire at hand and had him burned immediately." This story, of an anonymous individual who sought to cleanse medieval Paris, was part of a sermon delivered in ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226538549
ISBN-10: 0226538540
Publication Date: 5/1/1999
Pages: 380
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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