Subjects: Papacy -- History -- 1447-1565 -- Fiction, PS, Historical fiction, Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction, Sorrento (Italy) -- History -- Fiction, Catholic Church -- Italy -- History -- To 1500 -- Fiction, I
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The heroine of this 1862 historical novel is Agnes, a country girl living amidst the spiritual tranquility of an Italian convent. With her hand sought by a cast-out Italian prince, she is torn between the prospect of love and her sense of duty to the charismatic monk Savonarola, the instigator of the original and actual fifteenth-century "Bonfire of the Vanities."
Gutenberg
