Burning of the vanities, the: savonarola and the borgia pope
Auteur :
Seward, Desmond
Éditeur :
The History Press Ltd
ISBN :
9780750929813
Date de publication :
16 mars 2006
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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 Magnificent as a tyrant and the Borgia Alexander VI as an unworthy pope.