Savonarola – His Life and Times
Today’s free book is William Clark’s biography of the Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola. This book was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.
William Robinson Clark [1829-1912], Savonarola. His Life and Times. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1890. Hbk. pp.352. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Italy in the Fifteenth Century
- Savonarola’s Birth and Early Years
- Monastic Life in Bologna
- The Brother of St. Mark’s
- Florence and the Medici
- The Prior of St. Mark’s and Lorenzo the Magnificent
- The Preacher and Piero De’ Medici
- Monastic Reform
- The French in Italy
- Revolution
- Reformation of Manners
- Divisions
- The Departure of the French
- Pope Alexander VI. and Savonarola
- The Burning of the “Vanities”
- Treason
- Renewed Conflict with Rome
- The Ordeal by Fire
- Martyrdom