The Preacher's Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy

by Franco Mormando

"When the city was filled with these bonfires, he then combed the city, and whenever he received notice of some public sodomite, he had him immediately seized and thrown into the nearest bonfire at hand and had him burned immediately." This story, of an anonymous individual who sought to cleanse medieval Paris, was part of a sermon delivered in Siena, Italy, in 1427. The speaker, the friar Bernardino (1380-1444), was one of the most important public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226538540
• ISBN13: 9780226538549
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"