Brought to Florence by Lorenzo de\' Medici as a celebrity preacher, Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), a Dominican friar, would play a major role in the convulsive events that led to the overthrow of the Medici themselves.
The Latin Writings in this volume, all composed in the year before he was hanged, are translated into English for the first time..
Brought to Florence by Lorenzo de\' Medici as a celebrity preacher, Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), a Dominican friar, would play a major role in the convulsive events that led to the overthrow of the Medici themselves