Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City

by Paul Strathern

Book Overview

By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances between the major Italian powers.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160598826X
• ISBN13: 9781605988269
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"