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Article: Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Lauro Martines. Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 336 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl. $30. ISBN: 0-19-517748-7.
In this vivid account of Savonarola's forty-month ascendancy in Florence Lauro Martines has aimed to convey "the factual essentials" provided by Savonarola specialists to a wider readership while adding his "own lines of analysis." He succeeds admirably on both counts. The History Book Club Editor's Choice for April 2006, Fire in the City is both skillful haute vulgarisation and sophisticated historical commentary. Dramatic effect dictates the ...