Girolamo Savonarola Part 8: Bonfire of the Vanities

Savonarola creates a spectacular demonstration of public virtue in the hopes of turning Florence's fortunes around. Meanwhile, Pope Alexander VI has the monk excommunicated- a decision Savonarola was determined to fight against to his last breath.

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Bibliography:

Bartlett, Kenneth. Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464-1498: A Short History with Documents. Hackett Publishing, 2018.

Landucci, Luca. A Florentine Diary from 1450 to 1516. Columbia University Press, 1927. 

Martines, Lauro. Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence. Oxford University Press, 2005. 

Savonarola, Girolamo. A Guide to Righteous Living and Other Works. Toronto Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2003.

Strathern, Paul. Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City. Pegasus Books, 2016.

Villari, Pasquale. Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola. University of the Pacific Press, 2004.

Weinstein, Donald. Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet. Yale University Press, 2011.

Cover Image: Portrait of a Dominican, presumed to be Girolamo Savonarola, c. 1524.

Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák.

Closing Theme: "Dies Irae" performed by the Monastic Choir of the Grimbergen Abbey.