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'Savonarola's Sermons'
'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'
'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'
'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"'
'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'.
'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, mid-December 1847: 'We are going through some of old Sacchetti's novelets now: characteristic work for Florence, if somewhat dull elsewhere [...] We got a newly printed addition to Savonarola's poems the other day -- very flat & cold -- they did not catch fire when he was burnt. The most poetic thing in the book, is his face on the first page, with that eager, devouring soul in the eyes of it.'