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The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope
Desmond Seward
The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope
Desmond Seward
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.
320 pages, 30 black and white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 16, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9780750929813 |
Publishers | The History Press Ltd |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 163 × 237 × 30 mm · 608 g |
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