Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance

by PaulStrathern (Author)

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  Paperback
  2012

  $15.72

  Lorenzo de' Medici:
  The embodiment of Florence's most powerful family, a brutal man who ruled the city with an iron fist, whilst protecting it from the shifting mire of Italian politics.

  Fra Girolamo Savonarola:
  An unprepossessing provincial monk whose sermons, filled with Old Testament fury, resonated with the disenfranchised population of the city.

  The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events - including a mighty foreign invasion, trial by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths - featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures.