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Girolamo Savonarola
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Stella Fletcher
  • LAST REVIEWED: 29 November 2022
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  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0042

  • Dizionario biografico degli italiani. 100 vols. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1960–2020.

    The DBI contains entries for all the major figures of relevance to the present subject. The entry on Girolamo Savonarola is by Stefano Dall’Aglio and includes a bibliography up to and including Weinstein 2011 (cited under Lives and Times). There is also an entry on the physician Michele Savonarola online, grandfather of Girolamo, by Remy Simonetti. Both are in Vol. 91 (2018) of the print edition.

  • Ferrara, Mario. Nuova bibliografia savonaroliana. Vaduz, Liechtenstein: Topos Verlag, 1981.

    An essential resource that lists 1,132 works published between 1801 and 1980. All entries have at least short supplementary notes; some have extensive summaries.

  • Ginori Conti, Piero, ed. Bibliografia delle opere del Savonarola. Vol. 1, Cronologia e bibliografia delle prediche. Florence: Fond

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    Girolamo Savonarola

    Italian Dominican friar and reformer (1452–1498)

    Girolamo Savonarola, OP (, ;[4][5][6]Italian:[dʒiˈrɔːlamosavonaˈrɔːla]; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498), also referred to as Jerome Savonarola,[7] was an asceticDominicanfriar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence.[8] 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.

    In September 1494, when King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy and threatened Florence, Savonarola's prophecies seemed on the verge of fulfillment. While the friar intervened with the French king, the Florentines expelled the ruling Medicis and at Savonarola's urging established a "well received" republic, effectively under Savonarola's control. Declaring that Florence would be the New Jerusalem, the world centre of Christianity and "richer, more powerful, more glorious than ever",

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    Girolamo Savonarolaby Fra Bartolomeo, c. 1498.

    Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymus Savonarola, was an Italian Dominican priest and leader of Florence from 1494, until his execution in 1498. He was known for religious reformation, anti-Renaissance preaching, book burning, and destruction of art. He vehemently preached against what he saw as the moral corruption of the clergy, and his main opponent was Pope Alexander VI. He is sometimes seen as a precursor of Martin Luther, though he remained a devout and pious Roman Catholic his whole life.

    Biography

    Early years

    In his youth, he was preoccupied with religion, studying both the Bible and Aristotle. Savonarola initially studied at the University of Ferrara, where he appears to have taken an advanced Arts degree. His anti-clerical stance was initially manifested in his poem on the destruction of the world entitled De Ruina Mundi, written at the age of 20. It was at this stage that he also began to develop his moral voice, and in 1475, his poem De

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