To close out our series on The Pazzi Conspiracy we’ve fast-forwarded to the end of Lorenzo’s life to tell the story of the fall of the Medici and the rise of Savonarola, the Mad Monk of Florence in THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES! - ThreadSky

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robertrath.bsky.social • 47 days ago

To close out our series on The Pazzi Conspiracy we’ve fast-forwarded to the end of Lorenzo’s life to tell the story of the fall of the Medici and the rise of Savonarola, the Mad Monk of Florence in THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES!

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octavius32.bsky.social•47 days ago

I do love the cartoons of the 3 of u :)

jareddm.bsky.social•46 days ago

My only prior knowledge of this came from watching The Borgias. So I'm super interested to dig into this.

elvingjack.bsky.social•47 days ago

I made a comment on YouTube but I’m amazed you didn’t mention that Botticelli got radicalized by Savonarola and agreed to bonfire many of his own works.

robertrath.bsky.social•47 days ago

I mention this in Lies but this seems to be at least partially a myth.

robertrath.bsky.social•47 days ago

Botticelli kind of peaked early and while he did follow Savonarola and his paintings became a lot more conventional afterwards, this was also apparently due to him being somewhat past his prime. He did continue painting though (some stories claim erroneously that he stopped at Savonarola’s urging).

elvingjack.bsky.social•47 days ago

Thank you so much.

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