Savonarola : The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, 2011
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Savonarola : The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet
- Author
- Weinstein, Donald
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300111932
- ISBN 13
- 9780300111934
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 1.724 pounds
- Dimensions
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A deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican by a leading Renaissance scholar
Girolamo Savonarola the fifteenth-century doom-saying friar embraced the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that it would become the center of a New Age of Christian renewal and world domination. This new biography the culmination of many decades of study presents an original interpretation of Savonarola's prophetic career and a highly nuanced assessment of his vision and motivations.
Weinstein sorts out the multiple strands that connect Savonarola to his time and place following him from his youthful rejection of a world he regarded as corrupt to his engagement with that world to save it from itself to his shattering confession--an admission that he had invented his prophesies and faked his visions. Was his confession sincere? A forgery circulated by his inquisitors? Or an attempt to escape bone-breaking torture? Weinstein offers a highly innovative analysis of the testimony to provide the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola and his fate as a failed prophet.
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