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...first tried to bribe him with a cardinal's hat. Savonarola replied: "No [red] hat will I have but that of a martyr reddened with my own blood." After he defied a papal excommunication, his political enemies, assisted by the Pope's political friends, stormed San Marco, had him tortured and executed...
Martyr's Red. Girolamo Savonarola was a reformer with imposing forensic powers, and the bottomless, concentrated piety of St. John of the Cross. He came to the Dominican monastery of San Marco at a time when Florence lay wrapped in the captive luxury of the Medici tyranny. The church and the papacy were sadly corrupt, suffering from the rule, successively, of two immoral Popes. Innocent VIII and Alexander...
...Grand Peregrination, by Maurice Collis. The 16th Century travels of the Marco Polo-like Portuguese, Fernao Mendes Pinto, whose Far East adventures cast him as soldier, merchant, pirate, slave, ambassador and Jesuit novice (TIME, March...
Pinto piled up enough conspicuous "firsts" to make him the most renowned traveler in Asia after Marco Polo. He was the first European to describe alligators, cobras, orangutans and flying foxes (giant bats). "I shall not be surprised," he wrote, "if my readers who have not traveled refuse to believe in such creatures, for those who have seen little believe not much...
...Tibetan kind is the Mahayana, or northern. In an effort to bring the two schools together, Ryan publishes a monthly magazine called Stepping Stones. This infuriates Greek-English Author Marco Pallis, a Kalimpongian who wants Tibetans to stick with Mahayana. Pallis recently wrote a book warning Tibetans against Christian missionaries and other infidels with strange ideas and has been quietly sending copies across the border...