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A bonfire of the vanities (Italian: falò delle vanità) is a burning of objects condemned by religious authorities as occasions of sin.The phrase itself usually refers to the bonfire of 7 February 1497, when supporters of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola collected and burned thousands of objects such as cosmetics, art, and books in the public square of Florence, Italy, on the occasion ...
The Bonfire of the Vanities: The Opera is an opera by the American composer Stefania de Kenessey and American librettist Michael Bergmann. The story is about ambitions and tensions in New York City in the 1980s and is based on the novel The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe .
Girolamo Savonarola, OP (UK: / ˌ s æ v ɒ n ə ˈ r oʊ l ə /, US: / ˌ s æ v ə n-, s ə ˌ v ɒ n-/; [4] [5] [6] Italian: [dʒiˈrɔːlamo savonaˈrɔːla]; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498), also referred to as Jerome Savonarola, [7] was an ascetic Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence. [8]
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe.The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow.
While Savonarola was still alive the Piagnoni supported the campaigns of Savonarola against illicit sex, gambling and blasphemy. Savonarola also organized groups of followers that persuaded the people to hand over secular items to be burned in a Bonfire of the vanities. [7]
The Italian Renaissance — the Renaissance cultural period during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Italy ... Bonfire of the vanities; Brescian Renaissance ...
To mark the 30th anniversary of "The Bonfire of the Vanities," here are some eyebrow-raising making-of anecdotes from "The Devil’s Candy," from a charged audition between Hanks and a young Uma ...
In 1496, he translated the teachings of Savonarola from Italian to Latin. [6] After he began following Savonarola, he rejected his earlier poetry and attempted to write more spiritually. [6] He participated in Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities, and documented the destruction of art worth "several thousand ducats". [7]