:Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy
2009; Oxford University Press; Volume: 114; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/ahr.114.1.238
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
ResumoGirolamo Savonarola's legacy remains disputed territory to this day. Is he best understood as an Observant forerunner of Martin Luther, a divinely inspired critic of Italy's social decline, a protagonist—however atypical—of the history of Florentine (and Italian) republicanism, or simply a censor run amok? In this book, Tamar Herzig examines some of the earliest struggles over his reception, as she uncovers an understudied female line of transmission for Savonarola's cult. In the crucial three decades following the Dominican's execution and the condemnation of his followers in 1498, she argues, several holy women played central roles in the promotion of Savonarolism outside of Florence. Their memory was subsequently suppressed by the Florentine Savonarolans, known as the Piagnoni or Wailers, intent on purging the friar's legacy of any questionable elements. This tightly focused, densely researched book takes Savonarolan studies on a salutary excursion outside of Florence. Along the way it deepens our understanding of the networks and intense religiosity of the women who defied his orders of silence and invisibility.
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