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Translated and introduced by Konrad Eisenbichler.
On May 23, 1498, Girolamo Savonarola, one of the most spell-binding figures of the Italian Renaissance, was publicly burned at the stake on the main piazza of Florence on trumped-up charges of heresy and sedition. Thus ended the friar’s meteoric rise to power and his unprecedented influence over Florentine society. Though his ashes were unceremoniously dumped into the River Arno the moment the cinders had died away, the fire of his teachings could not be extinguished, nor could Florentines forget the riveting preacher from Ferrara who, in four short years, had turned their city upside down. Neither could Italians nor European reformers, for they soon turned Savonarola into a prophet of renewal and into a symbol of the struggle against corruption. Whether he was one or the other or neither, is still very much under debate.
This collection of texts from Savonarola’s extensive body of works seeks to provide the English reader with a variety of entry points into this controversial figure. With samples from his letters to his poems, from his sermons to his pastoral works, it more than doubles the number of Savonarola’s works currently available in English. In so doing, it makes his teachings that much more accessible to wide range of scholars and students alike.
“Eisenbichler has chosen a variety of [Savonarola’s] writings hitherto unavailable to English scholars […] personal letters, religious poems, sermons and pastoral works, all of which help to reveal Savonarola as a complex but compassionate and very human figure.”
— Mary Hewlett, Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reformé 27/3 (2003), p. 114.
Professor Konrad Eisenbichler teaches Renaissance Studies and Italian at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on the Italian Renaissance, focusing primarily on the intersection of literature, politics, and religion. His book The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785 (Toronto, 1998) was awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association. Professor Eisenbichler has been a two-term Director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and President of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. He is currently President of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies and Editor of the journal Quaderni d’italianistica.
Letters:
Poems
Sermons
Pastoral Works
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250 pp. / Softcover / ISBN 978-0-7727-2020-7 / $21.50 (Price includes applicable taxes, Shipping: $5.99 CAD within North America, $21.99 CAD to Europe, and $24.99 CAD to all other International addresses; prices may vary for bulk orders)
