Three Fires: A Novel,New

Three Fires: A Novel,New

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From the awardwinning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina reimagines the 'Bonfire of the Vanities, a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth centuryinspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola.Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. An anticorruption 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 Vanitiesa series of fires lit throughout Florence for the incineration of everything from books, extravagant clothing, playing cards, musical instruments, makeup, 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 powerand 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 Rizzioher latest novel with Pegasus CrimeDenise 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 neverending tensions between wealth, inequality, and freedom of speech that so dominate our modern world.

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