Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola: Religion and Politics, 1490-1498 (Italian Literature and Thought)

Literature & Fiction

Savonarola, Girolamo

Literary

Yale University Press

Five hundred years after his death at the stake, Girolamo Savonarola remains one of the most fascinating figures of the Italian Renaissance. This wide-ranging collection, with an introduction by historian Alison Brown, includes translations of his sermons and treatises on pastoral ministry, prophecy, politics, and moral reform, as well as the correspondence with Alexander VI that led to Savonarola’s silencing and excommunication. Also included are first-hand accounts of religio-civic festivities instigated by Savonarola and of his last moments. This collection demonstrates the remarkable extent of Savonarola’s contributions to the religious, political, and aesthetic debates of the late fifteenth century.

First brought to Florence by Lorenzo de’ Medici as a celebrity preacher, Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), a Dominican friar, would ultimately play a major role in the events that convulsed the city in the 1490s and led to the overthrow of the Medici themselves. After a period when he held close to absolute power in the great Renaissance republic, Savonarola was excommunicated by the Borgia pope, Alexander VI, in 1497 and, after a further year of struggle, was hanged and burned in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria in 1498.
The Latin writings brought together in this volume consist of various letters, a formal apologia, and his Dialogue on the Truth of Prophecy, all written in the last year of his life. They defend his prophetic mission and work of reform in Florence while providing a fascinating window onto the mind of a religious fanatic. All these works are here translated into English for the first time.

Apologetic Writings (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

History

Europe

Harvard University Press

Pax Animæ, By St. Peter Alcantara [really By J. De Bonilla. Followed By] A Short Treatise Of The Three Principal Virtues And Vows Of Religious ... Maddalena Della Mirandola]. From An Engl

Bonilla, Joannes De

World

Legare Street Press

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Poesie Di Fra Girolamo Savonarola: Tratte Dall'autografo (Italian Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

BiblioLife

An Exposition of the Psalm Miserere Mei Deus

BiblioBazaar

Meditations On Psalm LI And Part Of Psalm XXXI In Latin (1900)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Perowne, Edward Henry

Alternative Medicine

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Poesie Di Fra Girolamo Savonarola: Tratte Dall'Autografo (Italian Edition)

Guasti, Cesare

Capponi, Carlo

Nabu Press

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