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The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope
The Burning of the Vanities Savonarola and the Borgia Pope
Author: Desmond Seward
In the 1490s, Girolamo Savonarola, a visionary friar, dominated Renaissance Florence, terrifying the city with his uncannily accurate prophecies. Best remembered for his 'burning of the vanities' - the destruction of 'profane art' in public bonfires - Savonarola has often been caricatured as a hell-fire fanatic. Yet Victorian England saw him as ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780750929813
ISBN-10: 0750929812
Publication Date: 3/1/2006
Pages: 320
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Publisher: The History Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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