Savonarola

American  

[sav-uh-nuh-roh-luh, sah-vaw-nah-raw-lah] / ˌsæv ə nəˈroʊ lə, ˌsɑ vɔ nɑˈrɔ lɑ /

noun

1. Girolamo 1452–98, Italian monk, reformer, and martyr.

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Savonarola British  

/ savonaˈrɔːla /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

The cast of Renaissance characters is also large and somewhat ungainly, populated with outsize historical players that include Michelangelo, Savonarola, Raphael, Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, various popes, assorted Medicis and many more.

From Los Angeles Times

There are several African objects from the early 19th, late 18th centuries; there’s a 1980s marble pedestal and a reproduction of a Savonarola chair.

From Los Angeles Times

“I will go upstairs to the triple zero room, locate the appropriate encyclopedia volume, and check both ‘Savonarola’ and ‘Shrove Tuesday.’

From Literature

Savonarola burned books, poems, and paintings by the pile in great bonfires.

From Salon

The number of Botticelli paintings in the world would have been higher had the artist not fallen under the spell of the religious zealot Girolamo Savonarola.

From The Guardian