Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola, credited to Pasquale Villari, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola by Pasquale Villari. (Translated by Linda White Mazini Villari.) Read in English by Leon Harvey. This large biographical book was compiled after years of research to uncover and compile information about the Florentine monk, revolutionary and martyr, Girolamo Savonarola, an historically important figure in the era of the Italian Renaissance. - Summary by Leon Harvey

Recording facts

• Recording title: Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola
• Author credits: Pasquale Villari
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 20:44:41

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Christianity
• Catholic
• renaissance
• martyr
• bonfire of the vanities

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Translator's Forward. Preface to the new edition. Preface to the first edition — 53:00
2. 01 - I. From the birth of Savanarola to his becoming a monk. (1452 - 1475) — 31:43
3. 02 - II. From his entering the cloister to his first arrival in Florence. (1475 - 1481) — 27:20
4. 03 - III. Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Florentines of his day — 20:23
5. 04 - IV. Marsilio Ficino and the Platonic Academy — 31:30
6. 05 - V. His first residence in Tuscany, travels in Lombardy, and return to Florence. (1481 - 1490) — 34:16
7. 06 - VI. Savonarola's philosophy — 25:17
8. 07 - VII. Savonarola's first religious pamphlets and his interpretations of the Scriptures — 25:59
9. 08 - VIII. Savonarola preaches on the Gospels in the Cathedral He shows his aversion to Lorenzo the Magnificent. He preaches on the First Epistle of St. John (1491) — 39:03
10. 09 - IX. Death of Lorenzo de' Medici and of Pope Innocent VIII. Election of Alexander VI. Savonarola's journey to Bologna. Separation of the Convent of St. Mark from the Lombard Congregation. Reforms in the Convent. (1492 - 1493) — 49:05
11. 10 - X. Savonarola expounds the chief points of his doctrines during Advent, 1493. He predicts the coming of the French during the Lent of 1494. (1493 - 1494) — 30:27
12. 11 - BOOK II. I. 1494. The Coming of the French into Italy — 29:39
13. 12 - II. November 1494. The Medici are expelled from Florence. Savonarola is sent on an embassy to the French camp — 24:26
14. 13 - III. November 1494. The revolt of Pisa.The entry of Charles VIII. into Florence; his treaty writh the republic, and his departure. — 26:58
15. 14 - IV. December 1494. Political condition of Florence, after the departure of the French. Savonarola proposes a new form of government. — 36:23
16. 15 - V. 1494-1495. Constitution of the new government through Savonarola's efforts. — 57:21
17. 16 - VI. Savonarola's prophecies and prophetical writings — 28:19
18. 17 - VII. 1495. Various factions are formed in Florence. — 40:12
19. 18 - BOOK III. I. 1495-I496. Charles VIII returns to France. — 29:36
20. 19 - II. 1495-1496. The Pope issues a brief summoning Savonarola to Rome. — 44:12
21. 20 - III. Savonarola returns to the pulpit as Lenten Preacher in 1496 — 37:01
22. 21 - IV. 1496. Various writings concerning the works of Savonarola. — 45:22
23. 22 - V. 1496. The straits of the Republic and the disastrous course of the Pisan War. — 42:52
24. 23 - VI. 1497. Francesco Valori is made Gonfalonier, and proposes several new laws. — 48:30

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