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Lauro Martines.
Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy.
Published London: Jonathan Cape, 2006.
ISBN 0224072528;
ISBN-13: 9780224072526.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: William Clowes Ltd., Beccles.
Size: 161x240x31mm.
Page count: xvi,336pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy is unused, but with some shop wear: dustjacket a bit scuffed; pages starting to yellow slightly; a mild knock to the top corner of a few pages in the second half of the book.

This item £8.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £20.00]
Weight without packaging: 692g.

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Contents: Chorus; Vile bodies 1472-90; The friar returns 1490-91; The wait 1492-4; Fear & loathing, Nov. 1494; Holy liberty; Stamping out tyranny 1494-95; God & politics; Angels & enforcers 1496-98; The pope & the friar 1495-97; The Savonarolan moment; Wailers & bigots; Excommunication, May-June 1497; Five executions, Aug. 1497; Rome closes in; Foiled fire; Siege of San Marco, April 1498; Confessions of a sinner; Fire again — three executions, May 1498; Conscience of a city.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 8 pages of plates, colour and monochrome
Maps & plans: 2
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 9pp
Index: yes

See also | Savonarola |
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