Q: The chair in the photograph was a gift from my New England uncle many years ago, reputedly from an abbey or priory in or around New Hampshire. I have attached several photos, even one of the back, ...

Here is some interesting news I discovered this morning: there is a new Savonarola book that has been published this year. It is called The Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul ...

THE new edition of Professor Villari’s Savonarola, 1 which has been favorably known for a quarter of a century, includes notice of such fresh material as has come to light since its first issue, but ...

THE PIECE: A Renaissance Revival carved oak Savonarola-inspired armchair, from about 1900, probably made in the Midwest. THE OWNER: Louise Buckley of Metairie says that she remembers being frightened ...

I have always found one of the most fascinating figures of the Florentine Renaissance to be Girolamo Savonarola, who effectively ruled Florence from 1494-1498. While not the first person to try and ...

Sir, Brendan Donnelly (Letters, September 18) identifies Savonarola as an alarming precedent for Theresa May’s Florence speech. A more hopeful Florentine figure for her would be the Protestant ...