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Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
Death in Florence The Medici Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City Author:Paul Strathern By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. And in Lorenzo de' Medici they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances. However, in Savonarola, a provincial monk, Lorenzo found his nemesis. Filled with Old Testament fury, ... more »Savonarola's sermons reverberated among a disenfranchised population. His aim was to establish a new kind of democratic state, the likes of which the world had never seen. The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures.« less