Three fires
Mina, Denise2024
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Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the tail end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption campaigner his hellfire preaching increasingly spilled over into tirades against all luxuries that tempted people towards sin. These sermons led to the infamous 'Bonfire of the Vanities' - a series of fires lit throughout Florence for the incineration of everything from books, extravagant clothing, playing cards, musical instruments, make-up and mirrors, to paintings, tapestries and sculptures. Railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, he was instrumental in their removal from power, and for a time became the puritanical leader of the city. After turning his attention to corruption in the entire Catholic Church, he was first excommunicated and then executed by a combination of hanging and being burnt at the stake.
Main title:
Three fires / Denise Mina.
Author:
Mina, Denise, authorKeeble, Jonathan, narrator
Imprint:
Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2024.
Collation:
3 CDs (211 min.) : digital, stereo
Performers:
Narrated by Jonathan Keeble.
ISBN:
9781004152964 (CDs)
Dewey class:
823.92SPOK/
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3783745