Word: savonarolas
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...resourceful job at what only the movie camera can do: give motion and meaning to inanimate things. The picture sets the Renaissance stage for Michelangelo's emergence, shows the influences of contemporaries and ancients, carries the unseen hero through papal and princely intrigues, the bloody uprising of Savonarola, the siege of Florence and the sack of Rome. Out of the turbulence of the age and the passionate rigors of Michelangelo's genius flowers the beauty of his masterworks: the David, the Medici monument, the Moses, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Last Judgment, the soaring dome of St. Peter...
Neither Luini nor Baldovinetti was aware of the fact, but while they painted, the astronomer Copernicus was calmly pulling the earth out from under their studios. Even in the Renaissance, a scattering of prophets such as Savonarola kept repeating that man is mere dust; but never before Copernicus did anyone suspect what out-of-the-way dust man was. When Copernicus squeezed the world into a ball and set it spinning through the blackness of outer space, he did much to destroy the importance of man in art as well as in the universe...
There is the city of Girolamo Savonarola, the austerely fanatical Dominican friar, who preached rebellion against the lavish corruptions of his church and his age. That Florence still finds a fanatical echo in the souls of many Italians...
...Fabiani hedging against the future? Later, at a lake resort, I talked to sleek, handsome Aldo d'Elia, Florence's Fascist "chief of cabinet" from, 1934 to 1944. D'Elia consoles himself that the Florentine public is as cynically volatile today as in Savonarola's time. D'Elia says: "Florence is a pagan city. The people are easily impassioned, caustic and fickle. They will one day treat their present rulers as they treated...
...doubtful if Salazar likes either the salute or the slogan. Unlike all other modern dictators, he hates parades, pomp or cheers. When he rides to ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his handsome face with the Savonarola-hard mouth. Asked why he refused to respond to cheers, Salazar gave a characteristic answer: "I could not flatter the people without being a traitor to my own conscience. Our regime is popular but it is not a government of the masses, being neither influenced nor directed by them. These...