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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Mina, Denise.     Subjects     Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction.     Clergy -- Fiction.     Bonfires -- Fiction.     Florence (Italy) -- History -- 15th century -- Fiction.     Florence (Italy) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mina, Denise.       by title:      Three fires / Denise...       by call number:      FICTION MIN     Search the Web     Mina, Denise.     Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction.     Clergy -- Fiction.     Bonfires -- Fiction.     Florence (Italy) -- History -- 15th century -- Fiction.     Florence (Italy) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Three fires / Denise Mina. by Mina, Denise. Pegasus Crime, 2023. Call #: FICTION MIN Subjects Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction.   Clergy -- Fiction.   Bonfires -- Fiction.   Florence (Italy) -- History -- 15th century -- Fiction.   Florence (Italy) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781639364558 (hc) Alternate title:  3 fires Edition:  1st Pegasus Books cloth ed. Description:  136 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the 'Bonfire of the Vanities,' a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century -- inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola. Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption campaigner, his hellfire preaching increasingly spilled over into tirades against all luxuries that tempted his followers toward sin. These sermons led to the infamous 'Bonfire of the Vanities' -- a series of fires lit throughout Florence for the incineration of everything from books, extravagant clothing, playing cards, musical instruments, make-up, and mirrors to paintings, tapestries, and sculptures. Railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, he was instrumental in their removal from power -- and for a short time became the puritanical leader of the city. After turning his attention to corruption within the Catholic Church, he was first excommunicated and then executed by a combination of hanging and being burned at the stake. Just as in Rizzio -- her latest novel with Pegasus Crime -- Denise Mina brings a modern take to this fascinating historical story, drawing parallels between the febrile atmosphere of medieval Florence and the culture wars of the present day. In dramatizing the life and last days of Savonarola, she explores the downfall of the original architect of cancel culture and, in the process, explores the never-ending tensions between wealth, inequality, and freedom of speech that so dominate our modern world."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Suspense fiction. Novellas. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION MIN Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION MIN Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION MIN Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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