The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope by Desmond Seward

The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope

Desmond Seward

309 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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This volume tells the story of Girolamo Savonarola, the visionary friar who terrified Renaissance Florence by his uncannily accurate prophesies of doom - especially of a new barbarian invasion from Charles VIII - and denounced Lorenzo the Magnific...

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