The Preacher's Demons - Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy by Franco Mormando
"When the city was filled with these bonfires, he then combed the city, and whenever he received notice of some public sodomite, he had him immediately seized and thrown into the nearest bonfire at hand and had him burned immediately." This story, of an anonymous individual who sought to cleanse medieval Paris, was part of a sermon delivered in Siena, Italy, in 1427. The speaker, the friar Bernardino (1380-1444), was one of the most important public figures of the time, and he spent forty years combing the towns of Italy, instructing, admonishing, and entertaining the crowds that gathered in prodigious numbers to hear his sermons.
This hardcover book is in very good condition with slight imperfections to the cover. The pages are in very good condition.
ISBN 10: 0226538540 / ISBN 13: 9780226538549
