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Article: Savonarola e la politica.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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Gian Carlo Garfagnini, ed. (Savonarola e la Toscana, Atti e documenti, 2.) Firenze: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1997. xviii +269 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-87027-01-3.
The five-hundredth anniversary of Girolamo Savonarola's death (1498-1998) was observed by scholarly, cultural, and religious communities in Italy with a variety of conferences, publications, exhibitions and even concerts. In Tuscany, in particular, the three communities joined forces and, starting as early as 1995, began to lay out a veritable smorgasbord of eventsu For the most part, these were not simply commemorative occasions, but valid scholarly endeavors firmly aimed at advancing our knowledge of ...