A Crown of Fire: The Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola
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Mr. van Paassen examines Savonarola’s ideas on democracy and freedom, on everyday questions, and his strange predictions and prophesies which came to be fulfilled. And finally, the accusation of heresy, the trial and torture, and the burning at the stake.
Most books on Savonarola used the monk’s career and death to belabor Pope Alexander VI and the Borgia family. Not so here: rather Mr. van Paassen’s theme is that had Savonarola’s counsel been heeded the Reformation would have taken place within, rather than outside, the Church.
Pierre Van Paassen
Pierre van Paassen was a Dutch-Canadian-American journalist, writer, and Unitarian minister. He served with the Canadian army in France in World War I as an infantryman and sapper. He gained fame reporting on the conflicts among Arabs, British, Jews and French in the Middle East, as well as on the on-going African slave trade and colonial problems in North Africa and the Horn of Africa. He reported on Benito Mussolini's Italo-Ethiopian War, the Spanish Civil War and other European and colonial conflicts.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is not for everyone, however if you are interested in the Renaissance and Reformation this is a fascinating book. Some people may be put off by the fact that it is clearly written from a catholic perspective, but it is worth reading, just because Savonarola is such a fascinating and unusual character.
Savonarola died in 1498 less than 20 years before started his challenge to the church, Savonarola reveals the life within the pre-Reformation church, and the forces within it that were destroying that life. Savonarola is someone who spoke truth to power.