The Preacher's Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy
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"When the city was filled with these bonfires, he then combed the city, and whenever he received notice of some public sodomite, he had him immediately seized and thrown into the nearest bonfire at hand and had him burned immediately." This story, of an anonymous individual who sought to cleanse medieval Paris, was part of a sermon delivered in Siena, Italy, in 1427. The speaker, the friar Bernardino (1380-1444), was one of the most important public...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226538540
ISBN13:9780226538549
Release Date:May 1999
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:380 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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