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Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola, OP, also referred to as Jerome Savonarola, was an Italian ascetic Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He became known for his prophecies of civic glory, his advocacy of the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule, and the exploitation of the poor.
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politics · De facto ruler of Florence from 1494 to 1498; Dominican friar and reformer · politician · philosopher · religious · writer · preacher · theologian · social reformer · reformer · also Girolamo Savonarola, Jerome Savonarole, Hieronimo Savonarola, Gerolamo Savonarola, Ieróm Savonarola, Hieronymus Savonarola
Born 21 September 1452 · Died 23 May 1498 · Q164823
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2021· 1 entry
Ansa: Musei, Girolamo Savonarola 'torna' al convento San Marco Firenze
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2020· 1 entry
A devotional society (The Savonarola Society) dedicated to promoting his cause for canonisation was founded; in 2024 this group began The Opera Savonarolae (The Savonarola Project) in collaboration with Studio Fratesco,
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2019· 1 entry
Il Sussidiario: GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA/ Il frate “anti-casta”: la scomunica e il rogo (I medici)
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2015· 1 entry
Il Fatto Quotidiano: Girolamo Savonarola, 517 anni dopo: nella terra dove i moralisti finiscono sempre al rogo
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1952· 1 entry
Came the third of the major Savonarola biographies, the Vita di Girolamo Savonarola by Roberto Ridolfi
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1924· 1 entry
Crowned his vast research with a comprehensive study of Savonarola's life and times in which he presented the friar as the last best hope of the Catholic Church before the catastrophe of the Protestant Reformation
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1919· 1 entry
Savonarola was revered as a champion of social justice, and after 1945 he was held up as a model of reformed Catholicism by leaders of the Christian Democratic Party
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1498· 4 entries
Died 1498-05-23.
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“I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.”
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“Behold the sword of the Lord, swift and sure, over the earth.”
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Career landmark: execution of Girolamo Savonarola.
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1452· 1 entry
Born 1452-09-21.
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