[1073] Perrens, Jérôme Savonarole, two vols. Perhaps the most systematic and sober of all the many works on the subject. P. Villari, La Storia di Girol. Savonarola (two vols. 8vo. Firenze, Lemonnier). The view taken by the latter writer differs considerably from that maintained in the text. Comp. also Ranke in Historisch-biographische Studien, Lpzg. 1878, pp. 181-358. On Genaz. see Vill. i. 57 sqq. ii. 343 sqq. Reumont, Lorenzo, ii. 522-526, 533 sqq.
[1074] Sermons on Haggai; close of sermon 6.
[1075] Savonarola was perhaps the only man who could have made the subject cities free and yet kept Tuscany together. But he never seems to have thought of doing so. Pisa he hated like a genuine Florentine.
[1076] A remarkable contrast to the Sienese who in 1483 solemnly dedicated their distracted city to the Madonna. Allegretto, in Murat. xxiii. col. 815.
[1077] He says of the ‘impii astrologi’: ‘non è dar disputar (con loro) altrimenti che col fuoco.’
[1078] See Villari on this point.
[1079] See the passage in the fourteenth sermon on Ezechiel, in Perrens, o. c. vol. i. 30 note.
[1080] With the title, De Rusticorum Religione. See above p. 352.
[1081] Franco Sacchetti, nov. 109, where there is more of the same kind.
[1082] Bapt. Mantuan. De Sacris Diebus, l. ii. exclaims:—