Renaissance man Lorenzo The Magnificent
The Slow Train to Florence
Sunflowers and hill towns of Umbria
The copy of Michaelangelo's David in Palazzo Vecchio
The end of the Golden Age of the Renaissance was marshaled by Franciscan monk Girolamo Savonarola infamous for ritual burnings of books and art. His own death was by fire after the citizens of Florence had enough of his apocolyptic visions. The burning at the stake of Savonarola was coined the "Bonfire of the Vanities"
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