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    Which American novelist referred in the title of one of his novels to events in fifteenth-century Florence that involved the destruction of " dirty pictures, gambling-tables, books and art", including even some paintings by such a Renaissance luminary as Sandro Botticelli?

    Question #59074. Asked by Flem-ish. (Aug 29 05 1:29 AM)


    TabbyTom

    		This must be Tom Wolfe. His tiitle “The Bonfire of the Vanities” is taken from the name given to Savonarola’s burnings of books, paintings, costly clothes, etc in Florence in the 1490s (il falò delle vanità”). I believe the worthy friar soon suffered the same fate as the “vanities.”


    Aug 29 05, 1:44 AM
    Flem-ish

    		And that too is quite correct. Just wondering what paintings by Botticelli were forever lost in that ignominious bonfire.

    Aug 29 05, 1:51 AM

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