"A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"--

Reimaging the Bonfire of the Vanities through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power.