By E.L.S. Horsburgh

From the introduction: The life of Girolamo Savonarola was contained with-in the last fifty years of the fifteenth century (1452-98).. That is to say, he was exactly contemporary with a most brilliant, diversified and momentous epoch in the history of the world. He was himself very much the product of the influences which surrounded him, though in some respects he represented antagonism to them, and reaction against them. From whatever point of view he is to be regarded, it is essential first of all to understand something of the age in which he lived….

London. Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1911.