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Lauro Martines , former Professor of European History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is renowned for his books on the Italian Renaissance. The author of Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy , and most recently of Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance , he reviews for The Times Literary Supplement and lives in London with his wife, novelist Julia O'Faolain

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Average rating: 3.40 · 232 ratings · 53 reviews · 23 distinct works

	April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici 3.55 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence 3.24 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy 3.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Loredana: A Venetian Tale 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Scourge and Fire: Savonarola in Renaissance Italy 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	April Blood 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	La Congiura Dei Pazzi: Intrighi Politici, Sangue E Vendetta Nella Firenze Dei Medici 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Bloed in April 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Loredana 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5).”
― Lauro Martines, Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence

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