Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/05/2012
ISBN: 9780099546443
Length: 480 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm
Weight: 342g
RRP: £12.99
Lorenzo de' Medici:
The embodiment of Florence's most powerful family, a brutal man who ruled the city with an iron fist, whilst protecting it from the shifting mire of Italian politics.
Fra Girolamo Savonarola:
An unprepossessing provincial monk whose sermons, filled with Old Testament fury, resonated with the disenfranchised population of the city.
The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events - including a mighty foreign invasion, trial by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths - featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/05/2012
ISBN: 9780099546443
Length: 480 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm
Weight: 342g
RRP: £12.99
Strathern combines diligent archival research with an exemplary narrative verve and keeps the pages turning
Grips the reader from the first page... it is an arresting and horrifying tale and Strathern tells it with immense skill and verve