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...tale which is embodied in I Compagnacci ("The Evil Companions") is laid in Florence during the days of Savonarola and around the historical episode in which the reformer monk defied his enemies to trial by fire. He and a rival monk would walk through a blazing pyre, the one who emerged unscathed would be pronounced by Heaven to be right...
Among the various purchases of the year are a valuable collection of Savonarola tracts, a companion collection of Florentine Rapresentazionl; the library of the French archaeologist and scholar, the late Abbe Thedenat, comprising several thousand volumes; and an extensive collection of German pamphlets relating...
Miss Laura H. Dudley discusses Florentine woodcuts; there is a short notice of the "Sacre Rappresentazioni" from the point of view of the student of the drama; and Mr. George Norbet Kates discusses "Paradise in the fifteenth century", as illustrated in one of Savonarola's sermons and by various fifteenth century painters. Letters from Mrs. Henry R. Newman, Miss Margaret Jackson of Wellesley College, and Dr. Denman H. Ross on Mr. Henry R. Newman, the collector of the Savonarola books, give an added personal interest to the exhibition...
...exhibitions of Florentine illustrated books (Savonarola tracts and Scare Reppresentazioni) now being shown at the Fogg Art Museum is of the greatest interest, not only for the study of Italian woodcuts, but as showing the beginnings of the art of book illustration. In these first illustrated books the book page was regarded as a unit, with text and illustration in perfect harmony. The pictures in general were not intended to apply to a particular passage of the text, but were illustrations of some principle of episode which would serve to arouse the reader's religious emotions. Certain stock illustration appear...
...Savonarola collection, consisting of tracts and sermons by Savonarola and writings for and against him, and the Sacre Rappresentazioni, sacred plays, are the most important of the illustrated books printed in Florence during this period, and the even elution of the woodcut may be studied to advantage in them. The earliest cuts showed only a few figures depicted with the greatest economy of line. Later, more figures were employed, backgrounds were elaborated, and an attempt made to achieve realism and expressiveness. The Sacre Rappresentazioni contains cuts made from the original blocks, copies of the originals, cuts made for later editions...