Word: savonarolas
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...Library's collection of Florentine picture books is made up of the Savonarola collection, the collection of Sacre Rappresentazioni, and the Newman and Fairfax Murray collections. Florentine picture books are ilustrated by fifteenth and sixteenth country woodcuts, which represent the story of Italian book illustration. They are, with only a few exceptions, small quartos of only a few leaves each. They are religious books, plays and books of popular poems books largely for religious instruction and pictures were used not so much to illustrate particular passages as to inspire the reader with a feeling of devotion. The illustrations are complete...
...watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected the Friar of charlatanism, perhaps because he tried to rationalize the colorful sermons that so inspired a people who felt, but understood nothing...
...filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations, an appeal, a roar of laughter from Lawson. Twisting his Savonarola visage, Field would scuttle from the office. . . "Sure, I diddled...
There is his brother Philip Gibbs-whom he admires tremendously-who, when forced upon a lecture platform, always looks like a "frightfully tired Savonarola who is speaking in a trance." And there are Hamilton's own sensations on such occasions, when he always gives impromptu speeches. There is his visit to America where he met John Drew, the "Squire of Easthampton and the gardenia of the American stage"; his meeting with the "wistful Charlie Chaplin, who hides the soul of Punchinello beneath the comic rags of slapstick"; and that "delightful, naive and unconceited man, Will Rogers, who will never...
...zealot of the Savonarola party has affianced his daughter to a fellow puritan. She is loved by a young gallant of the worldly party. The wedding is about to take place. Outside, the trial by fire is about to begin. The young gallant enters by a chimney. There is a; disturbance. The gallant makes a bargain with the zealot father. If the trial by fire does not take place, he shall have the girl. The compact is no more than sealed when a deluge of rain outside extinguishes the flames in which the test was to be made...