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Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Random House
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 9781844134137
A riveting new book about Savonarola, a lowly friar of Renaissance Florence, but also a charismatic preacher and the talk of all Italy in the 1490s when he called for the renewal of a corrupt Church and the purging of vile governments.
Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Random House
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448139491
When the King of France invaded Italy in 1494, princely states would fall, sending tremors up and down the peninsula. The Medici fled from Florence; the republic sprang back to life; and the French army, occupying the Renaissance city for ten terrifying days, stood on the verge of sacking it. A 'little friar' from Ferrara, Savonarola was alone in knowing how to comfort citizens with his sermons and in urging the King to get out of Florence. Although the French left a city riven by political factions, the Friar's popular 'party' swiftly prevailed. With Florence at the height of its Renaissance glories, his voice rose above those of all other men. Claiming to be a messenger from God, he attacked evils on all sides - a mercenary Church, the despotism of the Medici, vile political elites, and Pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo Borgia, whose name itself was a byword for brazen corruption. Savonarola foretold a universal 'scourging', but made pleas, above all, for the renewal of Christianity and for the political voice of the people. His struggle turned into a battle for the 'soul' of Florence. Excommunicated and silenced, Savonarola spurned Rome and began to preach again, retaining the strong support of the city republic. As the Pope and Medicean conspirators closed in on him, five prominent Florentines were beheaded for plotting against the state, further inflaming the passions already rife in the city. After an abortive trial by fire to shame and discredit him, his enemies set siege to his convent, leading to his arrest and trial on trumped-up charges of heresy. Savonarola mingled the fervour of religion with the ardour of republican politics. Scourge and Fire is the story of his impact on Florence and of the city's spell over him.
Author : Hazel Rossotti
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486422615
This fascinating study examines the nature of fire, its symbolic significance, exploitation, and control. Lively, well-illustrated text explores the use of fire for comfort, in ancient forms of worship, more.
Author : Joel N. Shurkin
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035570477
Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 0224076523
Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400878048
Lawyers at work-in diplomacy, in relations with the Church, in territorial government, in the formulation of policy, in administration, and in the political struggle provide the unifying theme in this analysis of the exercise of political power in Renaissance Florence. Professor Martines studies the actual techniques of government, the hidden legal and constitutional questions raised by everyday affairs, and the responses of individual lawyers to the pressures of politics. He shows precisely how Florentine lawyers, both republicans and oligarchs, viewed the state. An appendix lists and briefly characterizes the some 200 lawyers who practiced in Florence during the period 1380 to 1530. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295805214
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fire prevention
ISBN : IND:30000091088223
Author : United States. Congress. House. Science and Astronautics Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119655087
Author : Gary Meehan
Publisher : Quercus Children's Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782069140
THE MISSION. Her sister stolen. Her grandfather murdered. Her home burned to the ground. At just 16, her life destroyed. Now, Megan wants revenge. THE ENEMY. But the men who took Megan's precious twin are no ordinary soldiers. The brutal witches, armour-clad and branded with the mark of the True, will stop at nothing to take back the power they once had. THE DECEPTION. Desperate for a way to destroy them, Megan uncovers a terrifying lie. A lie that will cast doubt on everything she has ever known, and everyone she has ever trusted. A lie that will put Megan at the heart of the greatest war her world has ever seen...
Author : Phillippe Diederich
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781941026311
Thirteen-year-old Boli and his friends are deep in the middle of a game of marbles. An older boy named Mosca has won the prized Devil's Fire marble. His pals are jealous and want to win it away from him. This is Izayoc, the place of tears, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City where nothing much happens. It's a typical hot Sunday morning except that on the way to church someone discovers the severed head of Enrique Quintanilla propped on the ledge of one of the cement planters in the plaza and everything changes. Not apocalyptic changes, like phalanxes of men riding on horses with stingers for tails, but subtle ones: poor neighbors turning up with brand-new SUVs, pimpled teens with fancy girls hanging off them. Boli's parents leave for Toluca and don't arrive at their destination. No one will talk about it. A washed out masked wrestler turns up one day, a man only interested in finding his next meal. Boli hopes to inspire the luchador to set out with him to find his parents. Phillippe Diederich was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Mexico City and Miami. His parents were forced out of Haiti by the dictatorship of Papa Doc Duvalier in 1963. As a photojournalist, Diederich has traveled extensively through Mexico and witnessed the terrible tragedies of the Drug Wars.
Author : Cathy A. Frierson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801469
Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles’ worth of property in European Russia between 1860 and 1904, accidental and arson fires acted as a brake on Russia’s economic development while subjecting peasants to perennial shocks to their physical and emotional condition. The fire question captured the attention of educated, progressive Russians, who came to perceived it as a key obstacle to Russia’s becoming a modern society in the European model. Using sources ranging from literary representations and newspaper articles to statistical tables and court records, Frierson demonstrates the many meanings fire held for both peasants and the educated elite. To peasants, it was an essential source of light and warmth as well as a destructive force that regularly ignited their cramped villages of wooden, thatch-roofed huts. Absent the rule of law, they often used arson to gain justice or revenge, or to exert social control over those who would violate village norms. Frierson shows that the vast majority of arson cases in European Russia were not peasant-against-gentry acts of protest but peasant-against-peasant acts of "self-help" law or plain spite. Both the state and individual progressives set out to resolve the fire question and to educate, cajole, or coerce the peasantry into the modern world. Fire insurance, building codes, "scientific" village layouts, and volunteer firefighting brigades reduced the average number of buildings consumed in each blaze, but none of these measures succeeded in curbing the number of fires each year. More than anything else, this history of fire and arson in rural European Russia is a history of their cultural meanings in the late imperial campaign for modernity. Frierson shows the special associations of women with fire in rural life and in elite understanding of fire in the Russian countryside. Her study of the fire question demonstrates both peasant agency in fighting fire and educated Russians' hardening conviction that peasants stood in the way of Russia's advent into the company of prosperous, rational, civilized nations.
Author : Stephen Roper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Fire engines
ISBN : NYPL:33433070228048
Author : Edward Abbey
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795317392
A New Mexico man faces off against the government in a battle over his land in this novel by the author of Desert Solitaire. After nine months away at school, Billy Vogelin Starr returns home to his beloved New Mexico—only to find his grandfather in a standoff with the US government, which wants to take his land and turn it into an extension of the White Sands Missile Range. Facing the combined powers of the US county sheriff, the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the US Air Force, John Vogelin stands his ground—because to Vogelin, his land is his life. When backed into a corner, a tough old man like him will come out fighting . . . Fire on the Mountain is a suspenseful page-turner by “one of the very best writers to deal with the American West”—the acclaimed author of such classics as The Monkey Wrench Gang and the memoir Desert Solitaire (The Washington Post). “Abbey is a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.” —Houston Chronicle “The Thoreau of the American West.” —Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015030730363