Seven Men
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Seven Men is a collection of five short stories written by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. It was published in Britain in 1919 by Heinemann. In the United States there was a
Cover of the first edition of Seven Men (1919)
Girolamo Savonarola
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Girolamo Savonarola, OP, also referred to as Jerome Savonarola, was an Italian ascetic Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He became known for his prophecies of
Seven Men
…tragedy. A clerk with dramatic leanings intended to take Sardanapalus as his subject but, because the encyclopedia he consulted had opened first at Savonarola, took him as subject instead. Max is named his literary executor after Brown is run over by a bus. He then discovers an unfinished verse drama full of…
Girolamo Savonarola by Fra Bartolomeo, c. 1498, Museo di San Marco, Florence
Posthumous portrait of Savonarola by Moretto da Brescia, c. 1524
Illustration from Compendio di revelatione, 1496, by Savonarola
Italian Renaissance Medal of Savonarola by Fiorentino. Electrotype, obverse.