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Savonarola

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Savonarola
Girolamo . 1452--98, Italian religious and political reformer. As a Dominican prior in Florence he preached against contemporary sinfulness and moral corruption. When the Medici were expelled from the city (1494) he instituted a severely puritanical republic but lost the citizens' support after being excommunicated (1497). He was hanged and burned as a heretic
Savonarola
(1452–1498) rabble-rousing bane of Renaissance Florence. [Ital. Hist.: Plumb, 141–142, 166–167]
See : Demagoguery
Savonarola (1452–1498)
reformer priest, hanged and burned at the stake as a heretic. [Ital. Hist.: Benét, 900]
See : Execution
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If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long--as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
To one who loves the Florence of Dante and Savonarola there is something portentous in such desecration-- portentous and humiliating.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
 
 
 
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