Essays Tagged: "Girolamo Savonarola"

Machiavelli's "The Prince".

the unstable Florentine. He helped unseat the dominant political and religious figure in Florence, Girolamo Savonarola (Teuber Par. 1 Bio.)The same year, he was appointed as chancellor and secretary ...

(6 pages) 202 1 4.1 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Nicola Machiavelli- The author and his times. (background Notes)

playing an active role in the affairs of his native city in 1498, when the government dominated by Girolamo Savonarola, the Dominican friar whose puritanical views had influenced Florence for the pre ... ared to enforce them with arms. To further reinforce his point, Machiavelli introduces the story of Girolamo Savonarola.Savonarola was a Dominican friar who had much influence in Florence from 1494 un ...

(121 pages) 420 1 2.2 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Music for the Plague and the Ages : Josquin's Miserere

e lord's mercy. Josquin's use of the refrain "mirrors a meditation on Ps. 50 by the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola". 6 This 'debt' to Savonarola also represents the suffering he would've encounte ...

(6 pages) 0 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies