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Title: Florence in poetry, history and art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ryan, Sara Agnes
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Publisher: Chicago, Mayer and Miller Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d 207 Florence. Upon a pampered people. Glory! Fame!Fame is but sound; conscience makes harmony;And happy he who truthfully can say,When the worlds pagan plaudits cease, he hearsThe sacred music of a virtuous heart.Give Florence back her freedom! Lorenzo: She is free.And of her freedom made me what I am,And by that freedom will unmake my sonsIf they run short of wisdom. Savonarola: Then enough!And summon your attendants. (Lorenzo rings. Bis friends enter.) You have needNo more of me. But this, Lorenzo, mark!What you refuse, that Florence swift will take,When your magnificence shall lie entombed,And God arraign you for the right you filched,But could not carry with you, nor bequeath.Die, by my voice unshriven! Savonarola strove to steer clear and straightthe bark of Florentine affairs after the death ofLorenzo and the expulsion of his son and suc-cessor, Pietro II; but he, too, fell under themight of his enemies and was forced to yieldup his life to their fury. He was burned on the 208
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Savonarola Fra Bartdlomuifo The Magnificent and the Monk. Piazza del Signoria, in 1498, on a spot nowmarked by a statue of him, and annually do theFlorentines scatter violets on the place of hisexecution and strive to wash away with theirtears and loving administrations these darkblood spots on her historys page. Florence cannot honor his ashes, for theywere scattered into the Arno, but she preservedhis monastery, made glorious by Angelicosbrush, the San Marco, as a national monumentto him, containing his mementoes; his rosary,his writing desk, his manuscripts. Here also ishis portrait painted by one who was a discipleof his, and who after his death put on theDominican habit and became Fra Bartolommeo.Botticelli also painted a memorial for him, TheBirth of Christ, in which he depicts some Do-minican monks being led by an angel towardsthe new born King, whom Savonarola had dur-ing his term of power, proclaimed King of Flor-ence, and Raphael has placed him among thedoctors and preachers

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