meddlesome friar story conflict savonarola de bedoyere michael 1900 1973 (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Bernardo Pinturicchio (illustrateur). 256 p.; 8 pl.; 22 cm. Girolamo Savonarola, O.P., 1452-1498; Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), 1431-1503. `Savonarola's death as a martyr, albeit a controversial one, has given to history one of its unforgettable pictures. The character of the victim and the issues at stake in his quarrel with the Pope are likely always to be discussed, but no one will be found to deny the essential goodness and purity of his vision in those dark days for the Church, nor the quality of the spiritual inspiration and zeal which enabled him to dedicate his adopted city to Christ the King--the divine title which Pius XI has made so popular in our own day of post-Christian denial of any sovereignty on earth save that of the so-called will of the people, however manipulated and travestied.' (p. 251) VG orig. green cloth in lt. edgeworn p-c black and tan dj.