Not the man for it
John Bossy: The Death of Girolamo Savonarola, 20 April 2006
Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy
by Lauro Martines.
Cape, 368 pp., £20, March 2006,0 224 07252 8 Show More
by Lauro Martines.
Cape, 368 pp., £20, March 2006,
The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope
by Desmond Seward.
Sutton, 320 pp., £20, March 2006,0 7509 2981 2 Show More
by Desmond Seward.
Sutton, 320 pp., £20, March 2006,
“... to go to Donald Weinstein’s Savonarola and Florence, past thirty years old and as fresh as ever. Desmond Seward does not take Savonarola for a millenarian either, on the grounds that he was too orthodox a Catholic: when he said he would make the Florentines rich, he meant spiritually. That must be shaky, and Seward is ... ”
