Rebel against the Renaissance: EML 3 June

[doversoul1]

Elin Manahan Thomas presents a concert recorded at the Herne Early Music Days Festival in Germany in November 2017. The Magnificat Consort and Philip Cave perform vocal music inspired by the execution of the Dominican friar Savonarola, who rebelled against the Renaissance. Music includes pieces by Josquin des Prez, William Byrd, Orlando Lassus and Heinrich Isaac.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b583lh

Was the Renaissance a kind of authority against which people could rebel?

[Serial_Apologist]

Elin Manahan Thomas presents a concert recorded at the Herne Early Music Days Festival in Germany in November 2017. The Magnificat Consort and Philip Cave perform vocal music inspired by the execution of the Dominican friar Savonarola, who rebelled against the Renaissance. Music includes pieces by Josquin des Prez, William Byrd, Orlando Lassus and Heinrich Isaac.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b583lh

Was the Renaissance a kind of authority against which people could rebel?

People like the Flat Earthers, and those who insisted the sun went round earth, not the other way around, I would guess dovers.

(Oh, and I'd always thought Savonarola was some kind of cereal )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Was the Renaissance a kind of authority against which people could rebel?

Perhaps a "prevalent set of ideas & beliefs" rather than an "authority"?

[jean]

The same sort of thing that (we're told) Gesualdo was anti-?

[Richard Barrett]

Was the Renaissance a kind of authority against which people could rebel?

What Savonarola spent much of his time preaching against was the secular art and culture typical of the Renaissance period, as in his "bonfires of the vanities" - a reactionary rather than a rebel, surely.

[teamsaint]

Which renaissance ?

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/johnson-renaissance.html

[Richard Tarleton]

What Savonarola spent much of his time preaching against was the secular art and culture typical of the Renaissance period, as in his "bonfires of the vanities" - a reactionary rather than a rebel, surely.

...the setting for George Eliot's Romola, which I read about 50 years ago....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What Savonarola spent much of his time preaching against was the secular art and culture typical of the Renaissance period, as in his "bonfires of the vanities" - a reactionary rather than a rebel, surely.

[doversoul1]

The same sort of thing that (we're told) Gesualdo was anti-?

That was/is my impression.

[richardfinegold]

...the setting for George Eliot's Romola, which I read about 50 years ago....

Irving Stone’s historical novel of Michelangelo, The Agony and The Ectasy, also had a substantial section devoted to the Rise and Fall of Savanorola, and similar to Richard T. I haven’t read that book for decades. As per Richard B ‘s comments (does that make me Richard III?), my recollection of Stone’s portrayal was that S. was what Americans would refer to as a Bible Thumping Fundamendalist and that he also was directly challenging the authority of the Medici Clan, who were portrayed as the exemplars of Enlightenment.

[Serial_Apologist]

Irving Stone’s historical novel of Michelangelo, The Agony and The Ectasy, also had a substantial section devoted to the Rise and Fall of Savanorola, and similar to Richard T. I haven’t read that book for decades. As per Richard B ‘s comments (does that make me Richard III?), my recollection of Stone’s portrayal was that S. was what Americans would refer to as a Bible Thumping Fundamendalist and that he also was directly challenging the authority of the Medici Clan, who were portrayed as the exemplars of Enlightenment.

Well they didn't have Ecstasy back then, but they certainly had their bible-thumping fundamentalists!

[doversoul1]

I don’t think I had come across The Magnificat Consor but I thought they were very good and so was their programme. Glory or not, it was a most enjoyable concert.