This volume tells 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.
ISBN: | 9780750929813 |
Publication date: | 16th March 2006 |
Author: | Desmond Seward |
Publisher: | Sutton |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 309 pages |
Genres: |
Biography: religious and spiritual |