TY - BOOK AU - Ridolfi,Roberto TI - The life of Girolamo Savonarola AV - DG 737.97 R533.1959 PY - 1959/// CY - New York PB - Knopf KW - Savonarola, Girolamo, N1 - Family background, studies, religious vocation, early convent years -- First stay in Florence and first divine revelation -- From the sermons in San Gimignano to the second period in Florence -- The return to Florence and the conquest of the Florentines -- "The preacher of the despairing" and the "joust" with Genazzano -- The friar and the magnifico, the sermons on Genesis -- The separation from the Lombard congregation -- The reform of San Marco -- The ark and the flood, the "new Cyrus" -- Fra Girolamo and Charles VIII, the friar founder of the popular state -- The death of Savonarola's mother and of Pico -- The struggle against the Arrabbiati and the Tiepidi -- The king again in Florence, Florence the city of God -- The first papal briefs -- The first interval of silence -- The sermons on Amos, the quiet after the storm -- The sermons on Micah, the great calm -- The Tuscan-Roman congregation, the sermons on Ezekiel -- The ascension day riots and the irregular excommunication -- The plague of the spirit and the plague of the body -- The sermons on Exodus and the departure from the pulpit -- Thoughts of a concilium, the ordeal by fire -- The assault on San Marco, imprisonment and trials -- The last writings and the last trial, the stake -- Portrait ER -