To rough-hew Vanities

See also: To rough-hew

This article relates to an historical event, to consult To rough-hew It Vanities for the Romance , and To rough-hew It Vanities for film.

The To rough-hew Vanities (in Italian: Falò delle vanità ) takes place the February 7th 1497 when the disciples of the monk Jerome Savonarole gather thousands of objects to burn them, with Florence, the day of the Fatty Tuesday.

The objects aimed by this destruction are those which push with the sin, especially those which touch with the Vanité, like the Miroir S, the Cosmétique S, the richly worked dresses, the jewel X, the musical instruments. Other objects end on roughing-hew it: immoral books, licentious songs not-nuns, images. Some masterpieces of painting florentine, of naked of mythological inspiration of Botticelli are carried by the painter himself with roughing-hew.

Such bûchers is not an invention of Savonarole, and frequently accompanied the sermons out of the churches by saint Bernardin of His, in first half of the 15th century.

In arts

The novel of Tom Wolfe To rough-hew It Vanities , published in 1987, refers to this event, but in a contemporary context.

It takes also an important place of the novel of Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason the Rule of Four , where it is a source of inspiration of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Certain details also appear in the novels of George Eliot Romola and of Timothy Findley Pilgrim (1999). ----

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