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, ...

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 ...

“Salem is a city in Massachusetts, not Tuscany." That truth-bomb was dropped a couple of week ago by our friends at the National Catholic Reporter—or the Fishwrap, as it’s known in orthodox circles.

THE LIFE OF GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA (325 pp.)—Roberto Ridolfi, translated by Cecil Grayson—Knopf ($7.50). From the monastery he had entered a few days before, the youth wrote a letter: “For what do you ...

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 ...

Donald Trump, false prophet. By contemporary standards, his populist power-taking may seem like genius, but through a historical lens he is an obvious plagiarist. Trump has stolen his lines and stage ...

This article contains Game of Thrones spoilers. There is a scene midway through the sixth season of Game of Thrones that is still astonishing in its depiction of hypocrisy and gender dynamics in a ...