Death in Florence.: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City.
by Strathern, Paul
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1605968269
- ISBN 13
- 9781605968261
- Seller
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"By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances between the major Italian powers. However, in the form of Savonarola, an unprepossessing provincial monk, Lorenzo found his nemesis. Filled with Old Testament fury and prophecies of doom, Savonarola's sermons reverberated among a disenfranchised population, who preferred medieval Biblical certainties to the philosophical interrogations and intoxicating surface glitter of the Renaissance. The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death..." 428 pages, plates; 21.5 cm. Very Good in VG color pictorial dust jacket. Stock#ofc0664.
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- Bookseller
- The Owl at the Bridge (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ofc0664
- Title
- Death in Florence.
- Author
- Strathern, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1605968269
- ISBN 13
- 9781605968261
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- Florence Italy history biography politics religion
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics and Government; History: Italy; Religion: Catholicism;
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