Description: How these contradictions were accommodated is a crucial part of the story Weinstein tells.
Brief description: Donald Weinstein is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Arizona. He is the author of several books of medieval and Renaissance history, including Savonarola and Florence: Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance.
Review Quotes: Weinstein succeeds not only in telling a memorable story, but also in illuminating core values and beliefs that usually remain opaque both to historians and to contemporaries . . . This splendid book tells us much about the practical interpretations of honor in Renaissance Tuscany.
--Christopher Carlsmith, Sixteenth Century Journal