Pyres of Vanity, the bonfires that destroyed works of art, were lit by this monk, the Medici's most virulent enemy
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a world lit only by fire - AHS History  priceless pieces of sculpture, and melted down works of art for their precious metals. ..... destroyed or covered up was untouched, and forty-six years later, when the Second ..... In Florence, the fief of Lorenzo de' Medici, local merchants were licensed ... AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT the most dangerous enemy in Europe was the...
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Bonfire of the Vanities - Wikipedia  A Bonfire of the Vanities (Italian: Fal delle vanit) is a burning of objects condemned by ... Such bonfires were not invented by Savonarola, but had been a common ... The focus of this destruction was nominally on objects that might tempt one to ... work in Florence in 1490, largely thanks to the request of Lorenzo de' Medici...
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Savonarola biography and information - The History of Art and The ...  Savonarola changed art history with the Bonfire of the Vanities. ... Savonarola was anti-humanistic and detested poetry, literature, rich foods, perfume, art and anything that was vaguely fun. ... He destroyed many of his most dazzling paintings. ... Upon the death of his arch enemies, Pope Innocent VIII and Lorenzo de Medici,...
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Savonarola | empire and apocalypse - University of Oregon  Donald Weinstein argues that apocalypticism in Florence was more than the usual ... Though Savonarola made his disdain for Lorenzo de Medici quite apparent, .... Works of art that Savonarola deemed objectionable were those that were secular ... Florentine districts symbolically lit the pyre, obliterating the objects of vanity.
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Free Flashcards about RENAISSANCE - StudyStack  PYRES OF VANITY, THE BONFIRES THAT DESTROYED WORKS OF ART, WERE LIT BY THIS MONK, THE MEDICI'S MOST VIRULENT ENEMY...
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2 Thessalonians 1  Skeptic's Annotated Bible answered  (1:7-9) "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God ... who shall be punished with ... What the Bible says about burning people to death. Sinners...
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Free Flashcards about MIDDLE AGES - StudyStack  NOW CALLED ERGOTISM, THIS "FIERY" MEDIEVAL DISEASE TOOK ITS NAME FROM THE ORDER OF MONKS WHO TREATED IT, ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE.
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SparkNotes: Inferno: Canto XXXIV  Still journeying toward the center of the Ninth Circle of Hell, Dante becomes aware of a ... The figure is Lucifer, Dis, Satanno one name does justice to his terrible nature. ... In the left and right mouths hang Brutus and Cassius, who murdered Julius ... in Christian and Jewish tradition, Satan was an angel who betrayed his...
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Inferno Summary at WikiSummaries, free book summaries  Feb 14, 2016 ... Language, Medieval Italian vernacular .... Virgil and Dante next proceed to the walls of the city of Dis, a city ... In Caina, the First Ring of the Ninth Circle of Hell, those who ... down Lucifer's massive form, holding on to his frozen tufts of hair. ..... One woman, Francesca, recognizes Dante as a living soul and...
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jeopardy/1714_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  GHASTLY OPERATIC DEMISES | In "The Stone Guest", this Spanish seducer mocks a statue, which retaliates by dragging him down to hell | Don Juan.
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Alighieri, Dante - The Divine Comedy: Index IJLM - Poetry In ...  The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, with associated prose translation and ... Pope from 1198 to 1216, he called himself Christ's Vicar, from whom worldly rulers ..... The poets are set down in the Ninth Circle that swallowed him. ..... Martin IV, Pope ... He died of eating too many eels from the lake of Bolsena, stewed in...
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Sackloth and Ashes: Manners & Customs - Resources for Ancient ...  The afflicted or penitent often sat in ashes (compare Job 2:8; 42:6: "I abhor myself, .... coarse, rough, and thick, used for sacks, and also worn by mourners (Gen.
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Eurydice in Classical Mythology - English  He was presented by his father with a lyre and taught to play upon it, which he did to such ... His very torch smoked and brought tears into their eyes. ... all powerful with us who dwell on the earth, and, if old traditions say true, not less so here. ... She came from among the new-arrived ghosts, limping with her wounded foot.
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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 - Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night  Guy Fawkes, The Gunpowder Plot and Bonfire Night ... Indeed, the thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, they would kill the King,...
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Dante's Inferno  Feb 19, 2015 ... Authored The Divine Comedy, an epic poem split into three parts: The Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise); The Divine ... The Inferno is a telling of Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell. .... Violent Sinners are divided into 3 sub-circles: Violent against Neighbors; Violent...
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Dante's Inferno: Critical Reception and Influence - Division of ...  Dante and the Divine Comedy have had a profound influence on the .... The famed author of the Decameron wrote ... lecture on the poem in the church of Santo Stefano in Badia. ... seventeen cantos of Inferno between October 1373 and January 1374 ... of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Florence, wrote a commen-.
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Hephaestus - Encyclopedia Mythica  Mar 3, 1997 ... Hephaestus, the god of fire, especially the blacksmith's fire, was the patron of all craftsmen ... But other versions say Zeus threw him from Mount Olympus after Hephaestus had sided with his mother in a quarrel. ... the Olympian gods and exhibited them as they were, naked and wrapped in each others arms.
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Dante's Inferno - Circle 7 - Cantos 12-17  Dante's attitude toward Pier della Vigna in Inferno 13 and his placement of famous suicides in other locations (Dido, for example, in circle 2) may suggest a more...
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The Masque of the Red Death  by Edgar Allan Poe ... raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.
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The Burning Times in The Summerlands  Historians generally refer to the Burning Times as "the great European Witch hunt" or ... what life was like for Witches who were accused of diabolism or criminal spell casting. ... Worse, by the 15th century some Christian scholars theorized that Witches ... But the centers of the persecution killed far more women than men,...
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Death by burning - Wikipedia  Deliberately causing death through the effects of combustion, or effects of exposure to extreme .... He says live infants were placed in the arms of a bronze statue, the statue's hands over a .... Estimates range from 30,000 to 50,000 burnt at the stake (alive or not) at the behest of the Spanish Inquisition during its 300 years of...