Sacrilege and redemption in renaissance Florence

In Florence, in the summer of 1501, a man named Antonio Rinaldeschi was arrested and hanged after throwing horse dung at an outdoor painting of the Virgin Mary. His punishment was severe, even for the times, and the crimes with which he was formally charged, gambling, blasphemy and attempted suicide, did not normally warrant the death penalty. Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence unveils a series of newly discovered sources concerning this striking episode. The authors show how the political and religious context of Renaissance Florence resulted both in Rinaldeschi's death sentence and in the creation by the followers of Savonarola of a new religious devotion, in the heart of the city, commemorating the event. -- Amazon.com.

שנה

2008

שפה

English

סדרה

Essays and studies -- 8

הוצאה

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

מהדורות

2

עמודים

137

ISBN

9780772720405

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata