Savonarola, Girolamo

An Italian religious reformer of the fifteenth century. Savonarola spent most of his career in Florence , Italy , where his fiery oratory whipped up popular fervor against corruption of church and state. He was eventually convicted of heresy and hanged and burned.

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Girolamo Savonarola arose at the end of the fifteenth century, and his reforming influence soon spread through Italy.

"The crucifix," said the voice of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was standing in the shadows behind her.

Girolamo Savonarola, who came to Florence in 1489, arose to fight against the literary and social movement of the Renaissance.

Boltraffio went to the cathedral, where that morning Fra Girolamo Savonarola was to preach.

The father of Girolamo Savonarola was a trifler, a spendthrift and a profligate.

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