Archive for January, 2010
Savonarola vs. the Kindle
by Barry Chudakov on January 12th, 2010
About 60 years after Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, in 1497, a Dominican friar named Girolamo Savonarola and his supporters collected and publicly burned thousands of objects such as cosmetics, art and books in what they called the Bonfire of the Vanities. This was held in Florence, Italy during the Shrove Tuesday festival.