Friday, January 27, 2017

notes, sources on Savonarola: nov1496 - aug1497

Looking carefully at the notes for both these recent secondary sources that I've been using on Dominican friar Savonarola, I wanted a more direct comparison. To be fair, Martines' narrative carries with it an interior aspect, telling the story in a way that nearly mimics what must have been their rather feverish times. On the other hand, Weinstein delivers a different viewpoint that seems more externally driven, bringing forth details of the scene to show additional contexts. One is not better than the other, though I have included fewer notes and sources here from Martines' book than I have from Weinstein's. Martines leaves the last half of the book to detail the political and the lead up to Savonarola's last eighteen months. Weinstein spends more time with the friar's early life and discussing Humanism and education in Savonarola's world. But both authors have done all the work here. These following bits are just a mere index meant to help me later track down parts of primary source materials.

Martines notes:
November 7, 1496 papal brief on Dominican reorganization p 138

January-February 1497 Francesco Valori elected Gonfalonier of Justice p 152-3, [Cerretani- Parenti]; 158, pp 167-8 [Schnitzer I, Parenti, Cordero III]
February famine and riots, p 178, [Parenti, Cordero IV]
March-April 1497: Bernardo del Nero elected Gonfalonier of Justice, pp 175-81
March 17: Piero at gates? p 177 (Fachard 2002); [Cappelli]
April attacks: (Fachard 2002); [Cerretani]
Hostages taken, on counsel from Valori {Guicciardini}, [Parenti]

June 1497 Savonarola sends out letter to supporters p 138-9 [Sav]
summer 1497 Francesco Altoviti diatribe v Sav. p 162-5 [Altoviti]
July 23, 1497 priest at Santa Maria Maggiore arrested for calling Savonarolans 'sodomites' p. 119 [Luca Landucci]
August arguments: pp 188-200; Giovanni Cambi

notes and pagination from Martines, Lauro: Fire In The City: Savonarola and the struggle for the soul of Renaissance Florence ; Oxford University Press, New York, 2006 

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Weinstein notes: [Sav = Savonarola, HoF= Guicciardini's History of Florence]

All Saint's Days sermons: pp. 204-8; [Sav. Ruth & Micah]
November 7, 1496 papal breve, 208-10; [Villari, on text; Gherardi, de Maio, reception]
November 30 sermon: p. 211 [Sav. Ezechiel I]
December 13 sermon, pp 212-14: [Sav. Ezechiel I], [Nardi, reaction]
Francesco Valori: pp 214-6: [Polizzotto y Kovesi, House of Valori, 2007], [Parenti, Guicciardini, Ridolfi, Cadoni]
Jan-Feb 1497: Carneval: [Parenti, Macey "Bonfire Songs" pp 216-19
news of truce between France and League 25Feb97: pp 219-21 [Parenti, Landucci, Gherardi]
March-April: pro-Medicean Bernardo del Nero elected Gonfalonier of Justice: p220-2
Suor Maddalena squelched by Sav intervening: pp 221-2: [Parenti, Storia II, 89-92; Landucci, Diario, 146; I processi, 26]

Piero de Medici tries to attack, slinks away: pp 222-3: Valori insists hostages be taken [Cerretani, Storia fiorentina 234-5;]
Piero at the wall: [Landucci, Diario, 147]; leaves for Siena, [Parenti, Storia II, 89-100; Guicciardini, History of Florence, chap 15]
May-June: anti-Medicean Alberti elected Gonfalonier of Justice: pp 223-
Ascension Day tumult and sermon: pp 224-5 [Villari, Sav. Ezeckiel II, Landucci, Parenti, Pseudo-Burlamacchi]
Savonarola writes a letter: [Lettere e scritti apologetici 256-64; Parenti, Storia II, 101-6]
May 12, 1497 election reform bill, broadened the great council again, [Parenti, Cadoni, Lotte politiche 54-5]
bills reception: [Guicciardini HoF, 129; letter to Filippo Strozzi in Villari, La storia II, 25 n. 1; Landucci Diario, 149]
excommunication postponed: pp 227-9; [Landucci, 150-2]
June 18, 1497: excommunication breve read: pp 229-330; [Gherardi, 165-6, 168-9; Parenti 109]
Sav responds: pp 226-7; Lettere e scritti apologetici 271-6; Lettere 277-82;
city broods: pp 230-2; Parenti 109-13; urges Dominicans stay indoors for St John fest: [Nardi, Istorie I, 112; on Altoviti crit, Schnitzer Savonarola I ch 22; also Munich, 1903] [Angelo de Vallambroso, Lettere 84-92; Gherardi, 166-174];
Becchi and Bracchi letters to Ten: Gherardi, Nuovo documenti 169-74]
Condolences sent to Pope on death of Juan de Gandia; [Sav. Lettere e scritti apologetici 101-2; more letters to others 152-71]
Savonarola turned to write books: pp 234-40
plague strikes: pp 236-8 [Parenti, Storia II, 113; Landucci 152-5; Sav. Lettere e scritti apologetici 165-71, 175-99]
August: Lamberta dell-Antella captured: pp 241-3[Villari, La Storia II, iii-xxv; Parenti, Storia II, 119, 121-2, 127, 133-4; Guicciardini, HoF 132]
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from Donald Weinstein: Savonarola: the rise and fall of a renaissance prophet , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011

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