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575. The Medici: The Bonfire of the Vanities (Part 4)

2025/6/19
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Girolamo Savonarola: 我看到了意大利上空颤抖的剑指向下方,一场风暴将席卷佛罗伦萨,这把剑属于法国国王,意大利将感受到它的威力。三年前我就预言过风暴的到来,它已经撼动了意大利的统治者。你们的堡垒在哪里?你们的据点在哪里? Tom Holland: 萨沃纳罗拉的末日布道在佛罗伦萨引起了轰动,他利用印刷术传播他的观点。法国军队已经越过阿尔卑斯山,意大利正在流血。美第奇家族已经被扫除,萨沃纳罗拉准备用炽热的火焰净化佛罗伦萨,带领人民进入新的正义时代。皮耶罗不适合处理佛罗伦萨面临的挑战,他拒绝了查理八世安全通过佛罗伦萨的要求,导致佛罗伦萨经济遭受巨大打击。萨沃纳罗拉预言了一位新的居鲁士大帝的到来,他指的是查理八世。 Dominic Sandbrook: 历史对萨沃纳罗拉有点不公平。萨沃纳罗拉的运动类似于2020年的“黑人的命也是命”示威活动。萨沃纳罗拉憎恨饮酒、赌博、诅咒、卖淫、挑衅性的舞蹈和烟花,他反对性别流动,他不喜欢长发的男人和紧身裤。佛罗伦萨通过了最严厉的法律来惩罚鸡奸。

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Following Lorenzo de' Medici's death, his son Piero inherits a turbulent Florence. The French army's advance and Piero's inept leadership create a power vacuum, allowing the fiery priest Girolamo Savonarola to rise to prominence with his apocalyptic sermons.
  • Lorenzo de' Medici's death creates political instability in Florence.
  • Savonarola's apocalyptic sermons gain popularity amidst the turmoil.
  • Piero de' Medici's weak leadership exacerbates the crisis.

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Following the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was his Medici successor? Could he overcome the political turmoil and religious fervour in Florence, and rebuff the storm clouds of war gathering over his city with the approaching French army? How did this burgeoning catastrophe catapult the magnetic priest, Savonalrolla, to supreme power in Florence? Could he save it from the jaws of death with his fiercely puritanical regime? And, how would he become the bane of the Medici and destroy all they had ever built, in a roaring bonfire of worldly vanities?

Join Dominic and Tom for the climactic apotheosis of their glittering, dramatic, salacious and utterly bombastic journey through the rise and fall of the flamboyant Medici at the high point of Renaissance Florence, and the charismatic priest who would save and then conquer their kingdom. What would be his fate…?

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