{"product_id":"savonarola-donald-weinstein-9780300111934","title":"Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican by a leading Renaissance scholar\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century doom-saying friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that it would become the center of a New Age of Christian renewal and world domination. This new biography, the culmination of many decades of study, presents an original interpretation of Savonarola's prophetic career and a highly nuanced assessment of his vision and motivations.\u003cp\u003eWeinstein sorts out the multiple strands that connect Savonarola to his time and place, following him from his youthful rejection of a world he regarded as corrupt, to his engagement with that world to save it from itself, to his shattering confession--an admission that he had invented his prophesies and faked his visions. Was his confession sincere? A forgery circulated by his inquisitors? Or an attempt to escape bone-breaking torture? Weinstein offers a highly innovative analysis of the testimony to provide the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola and his fate as a failed prophet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Weinstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300111932\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300111934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.49h x 6.42w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2011 pg. 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2012","brand":"Donald Weinstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46685595697407,"sku":"9780300111934","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ead272ff-c220-4c56-bc89-6310e190c294.jpg?v=1741726196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/savonarola-donald-weinstein-9780300111934","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}