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On April 8, a crowd attacked the convent of San Marco; a bloody struggle ensued, during which several of Savonarola's supporters were killed: He surrendered along with Fra Domenico da Pescia and Fra Silvestro, his two closest associates. He also established the first Monte di Pietá, a pawnshop dedicated to helping the poor and sick, which would eventually be sanctioned by Lateran V (1512—17).
In 1497, he and his followers carried out the Bonfire of the Vanities. He immersed himself in theological study, and in 1479, transferred to the convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli. Politically, his republican vision lasted amongst the Florentines for another thirty years before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V forcibly restored the Medicis to power.
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 seems to have preached in 1482 at Florence, but his first trial was a failure. This article abides by terms of the Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0 License (CC-by-sa), which may be used and disseminated with proper attribution.
Credit is due under the terms of this license that can reference both the New World Encyclopedia contributors and the selfless volunteer contributors of the Wikimedia Foundation. Savonarola was charged with heresy, uttering prophecies, sedition, and religious error.
Under torture he made avowals which he afterwards withdrew. ISBN 0821402021
He was brought to trial for falsely claiming to have seen visions, and uttered prophecies, for religious error, and for sedition.
He can be compared to Luther in his denunciation of sin but was unlike the German monk in following out logical conclusions.
Florence soon became tired of Savonarola's hectoring. On May 23, 1498, this extraordinary man and two Dominican disciples were hanged and burned, still professing their adherence to the Church.
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His second appearance in the pulpit of San Marco — on the sinfulness and apostasy of the time — was a great popular triumph, and by some he was hailed as an inspired prophet.
Under Lorenzo the Magnificent art and literature had felt the humanist revival of the 15th century, whose spirit was utterly at variance with Savonarola’s conception of spirituality and Christian morality.
They sent boys from door to door collecting items associated with moral laxity: Mirrors, cosmetics, lewd pictures, pagan books, sculptures, gaming tables, chess pieces, lutes and other musical instruments, fine dresses, women's hats, and the works of immoral poets, and burnt them all in a large pile in the Piazza della Signoria of Florence.[1] Fine Florentine Renaissance artwork was lost in Savonarola's notorious bonfires, including paintings by Sandro Botticelli thrown on the pyres by the artist himself.
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.