The self-censoring artist
An excerpt from my book “Free Speech and Why It Matters”.
Amid the rabble of tourists that typically undulate in and around Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, you would be forgiven for heedlessly stepping over the round marble plaque that marks the spot where the Dominican Friar Girolamo Savonarola was hanged and incinerated in 1498. His fate had a certain talionic quality, for only a year before, in this same …
