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Among his published works are: "Essays on Life and Literature," "Poems and Lyrics," "The Quest of the Simple Life," and "Savonarola, a Drama...
Throughout all the intellectual strees of his time, Michelangelo never lost his faith in the central ideas of the Christian religion. He was greatly influenced by the powerful preaching of Savonarola, with whose desire for reformation of the church and the freedom of Florence he deeply sympathized...
...chief seat of learning, both in art and literature, in the fifteenth century was Florence. In Botticelli one of the first of the Florentian school, we find all three of the elements of the painting of this period combined. He was a pupil of Savonarola, and was a charming painter if not a great one. The leader of the new awakening in art in Florence was Mazatio, a man whom Raphael and Michael Angelo did not disdain to follow. Many men of other schools also were drawn to Florence who in time adopted the Florentine School. At this period there...
...forerunners to which more space is devoted. The contemporary editions of Erasmus, of the tracts poured forth in the controversy between Reuchlin and the Obscurantists, of the poems and orations and satires of Ulrich von Hutten, few are wanting. The mystical teachers, too, of the pre-Reformation period - Savonarola in Italy, Tauler and Geiler of Kaisersburg in Germany - are well represented by original impressions...