Savonarola: Bonfire of the Vanities

Years ago, on a business trip, I sat next to a woman who was a history professor, specializing in the Florentine Renaissance. I mentioned to her that it seemed to me that modern academics had made Savonarola the villain of the Florentine Renaissance, and Lorenzo the Magnificent one of its heroes. This (I said) seemed strange from an American perspective (don’t we worship “democracy”).

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Savonarola: Bonfire of the Vanities