Descrição
1.ª edição. «SAVONAROLA is one of the strangest and most haunting figures in history. His life has been the subject of extensive controversy. He has been attacked and defended with much bitterness or high-minded zeal. A Crown of Fire is Pierre van Passen’s biography of this extraordinary man, and his times. Savonarola lived during the high summer of Renaissance Italy. Against this scintillating background Pierre van Paassen traces Savonarola’s early loves and his sudden decision to enter the church. Florence was to be Savonarola’s home for the rest of his life, and the author evokes the splendour and squalor of the city in a most colourful style. The great figures of the Renaissance, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Pope Alexander VI and the Sforza family all enter into Savonarola’s story. Mr. van Paassen provides us with a thoughtful appreciation of Savonarola’s character and his actions are given logical reason. Pierre van Paassen excels with set piece descriptions such as Savonarola’s conversion of the whole of Florence with the entire population moving in procession, in penitence. Savonarola, the Friar, transcended his times, and his thought has relevance for us today. A Crown of Fire is excellent and vivid writing. The Renaissance was a period of high excitement and men of extraordinary character and deeds. Mr. van Paassen in A Crown of Fire lives up to the challenge of this great period and its men.
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