THE MAN or THE RENAISSANCE—Ralph Roeder—Viking ... almost as much instructive entertainment and weight (2½ lb.). Girolamo Savonarola, whom Fra Bartolommeo’s portrait shows as the most ...

And for four glorious years, that city—the capital of the Renaissance; the home of Dante, da Vinci, and Machiavelli—was ruled by a theocrat named Fra Girolamo Savonarola. Savonarola’s name ...