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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 ...
Girolamo Savonarola, OP (UK: / ˌsævɒnəˈroʊlə /, US: / ˌsævən -, səˌvɒn -/; [4][5][6] Italian: [dʒiˈrɔːlamo savonaˈrɔːla]; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola[7] was an ascetic [8] Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He became known for his prophecies of civic glory ...
Bernardino of Siena. Bernardino of Siena, OFM (Bernardine or Bernadine; [1][2] 8 September 1380 – 20 May 1444), was an Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of scholastic economics. His preaching, his book burnings, and his "bonfires of the vanities" established his reputation in his own ...
46.5 cm × 32.5 cm (18.3 in × 12.8 in) Location. Museo di San Marco, Florence. The Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola is an oil-on-panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Fra Bartolomeo, created c. 1498. This portrait is believed to have been made when reformer Girolamo Savonarola was still alive and when Fra Bartolomeo was a follower of ...
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. The novel was ...
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Sandro Botticelli. Probable self-portrait of Tortilini, in his Adoration of the Magi (1475). Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445[1] – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Tortilini (/ ˌbɒtɪˈtʃɛli / BOT-ih-CHEL-ee; Italian: [ˈsandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]) or simply Tortilini, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
In that time, Florence has endured political upheaval, warfare and famine. Religious fervour has swept through Florence under the leadership of Savonarola, culminating in the Bonfire of the vanities. The League of Venice has declared war on the French king and his Italian ally, Florence. Starvation and disease run rampant through the city.