Savonarola

[ sav-uh-nuh-roh-luh; Italian sah-vaw-nah-raw-lah ]

noun

1. Gi·ro·la·mo [ji-, rol, -, uh, -moh, jee-, raw, -lah-maw], 1452–98, Italian monk, reformer, and martyr.

Savonarola

/ savonaˈrɔːla /

noun

1. SavonarolaGirolamo14521498MItalianRELIGION: clergymanRELIGION: religious reformerPOLITICS: political reformer Girolamo (dʒiˈrɔːlamo). 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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Negative reality: Santorum may sound like Savonarola, but he comes across as Little Nell.

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Savonarola kindled a greater fire in Florence than all the artists whom the Medici ever patronized.

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Savonarola was burnt alive at Florence; now his memory is cherished, and his worth fully known.

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Now, if Lorenzo had kept the people quiet with songs, Savonarola was equally successful with hymns.

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He was an outspoken man, and reproved the greatest dignitaries with as much boldness as did Savonarola.

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Carlyle in ten sentences would have made a more graphic picture of Savonarola.

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