Remembering Anne of Foix in Venice, August of 1502. From a previous post that extensively quotes Marin Sanudo.
Bernal Diaz remembers also how to tell a story, recalling the days before the Europeans' march to Tlaxcala in 1519.
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Filling an entire chapter, the episode in Florence involving the five executed for treason, in the early hours of 22 August 1497 is carefully lain out in Lauro Martines' work on Girolamo Savonarola. Weinstein handles the story more circumspectly as one of a series of hardships that added to the sense of a continued siege mentality for the city of Florence as a whole. His sources here remain plentiful and typical of the period. These include the 1930 bio of Pasquale Villari, and the contemporaries Parenti and Guicciardini, as well as the works and testimony of Savonarola himself.
Weinstein: pp. 240-4
Martines: pp. 182-200
Lauro Martines spends quite a bit more time with the matter. Notes for his ch. 14, ... will go to a link found here.
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Savonarola spent the fall 1497 and the following winter, among other things, beginning to write his Dialogue on the Truth of Prophecy, an allegory where he disputes with the Seven Gifts of The Holy Spirit.
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another Bracciolini reference
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Popocatepetl in central Mexico just blew its top with two other eruptions and a dozen exhalations in the last few hours [edit 0800 GMT 06Oct17]. Here's a live cam on youtube with local audio.
Here's an article on Cortes at the foot of it boasting. Here's another of them before and a view of the Mexica ambassador trying to warn them.
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