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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
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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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