Savonarola

The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet

von Donald Weinstein

400 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican by a leading Renaissance scholar

Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century doom-saying friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that it would become the center of a New Age of Christian renewal and world domination. This new biography, the culmination of many decades of study, presents an original interpretation of Savonarola's prophetic career and a highly nuanced assessment of his vision and motivations.Weinstein sorts out the multiple strands that connect Savonarola to his time and place, following him from his youthful rejection of a world he regarded as corrupt, to his engagement with that world to save it from itself, to his shattering confession--an admission that he had invented his prophesies and faked his visions. Was his confession sincere? A forgery circulated by his inquisitors? Or an attempt to escape bone-breaking torture? Weinstein offers a highly innovative analysis of the testimony to provide the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola and his fate as a failed prophet.

• Reihe: YALE UNIV PR
• ISBN: 9780300111934
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2011
• Größe: 250 x 167 mm
• Verlag: Yale University Press