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The Burning of the Vanities
by Desmond Seward
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In the 1490s Girolamo Savonarola, a visionary friar, dominated Renaissance Florence, terrifying the city with his uncannily accurate prophecies. Best remembered for his 'burning of the vanities'—the destruction of 'profane art' in public bonfires—Savonarola has often been caricatured as a hell-fire fanatic. Savonarola prophesied the French invasion of Italy with alarming precision and foretold several deaths, but there was more to him than prophecies of doom…

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The Burning of the Vanities
By Desmond Seward
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FREE @ AMAZON
In the 1490s Girolamo Savonarola, a visionary friar, dominated Renaissance Florence, terrifying the city with his uncannily accurate prophecies. Best remembered for his 'burning of the vanities'—the destruction of 'profane art' in public bonfires—Savonarola has often been caricatured as a hell-fire fanatic. Savonarola prophesied the French invasion of Italy with alarming precision and foretold several deaths, but there was more to him than prophecies of doom…
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