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	Girolamo Savonarola - LoveToKnow 1911
		GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA (1452-1498), Italian monk and martyr, was born at Ferrara on the 21st of September 1452, the third child of Michele Savonarola and his wife Elena Bonaccossi of Mantua.
		Meanwhile Savonarola continued to denounce the abuses of the church and the guilt and corruption of mankind, and thundered forth predictions of heavenly wrath.
		Savonarola, perceiving that a trap was being laid for him, discountenanced the "experiment" until his calmer judgment was at last overborne by the fanaticism of his followers.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Girolamo_Savonarola (6071 words)

	Savonarola - MSN Encarta
		Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymus Savonarola, was an Italian Dominican priest and leader of...
		Savonarola was born on September 21, 1452, of a noble family in Ferrara.
		Savonarola openly declared the censure invalid and refused to hold himself bound by it.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570817/Savonarola.html (578 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola - The Encyclopedia
		Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 â“ 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.
		Savonarola was born in Ferrara, the capital of an independent Duchy.
		Savonarola became a Dominican friar in 1475, during the Italian Renaissance, and entered the convent of San Domenico in Bologna.
	www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Girolamo_Savonarola (1939 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola - Biography, Further reading, Fictionalizations
		Savonarola became a Dominican friar in 1475, and entered the convent of San Domenico in Bologna.
		Savonarola was lambasted for being ungainly, weak and a poor orator.
		However, Savonarola was convinced of the truth of Catholic doctrine, and unlike Luther, concentrated on purging the Church from immorality, not from supposedly unsound doctrine.
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/8821/Girolamo-Savonarola.html (1040 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola - New World Encyclopedia
		Savonarola became a Dominican friar in 1474, and entered the convent of San Domenico in Bologna.
		It is said that Savonarola predicted several key events, such as the invasion of Italy by a foreign king and the deaths of Lorenzo de Medici and of Pope Innocent VIII.
		Savonarola was charged with heresy, uttering prophecies, sedition, and religious error.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /entry/Girolamo_Savonarola (1394 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Girolamo Savonarola was born in Ferrara on Sept. 21, 1452.
		Savonarola had time for neither the comfortable, courtly life of his father's household nor youthful sports and exercises, so absorbed was he in the subtleties of the scholastics and their spiritual father, Aristotle.
		Savonarola was tortured until he confessed many crimes, and on May 23, 1498, convicted falsely of heresy, he was burned at the stake in the Piazza della Signoria.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/girolamo-savonarola (898 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola - Saint Wiki
		Savonarola's sermons made no impression, for his method and mode of speaking were repulsive to the Florentines; but this did not discourage his reforming zeal.
		Savonarola, who was the vicar-general of the new congregation, set the example of a strict life of self-mortification; his cell was small and poor, his clothing coarse, his food simple and scanty.
		Savonarola did not interfere directly in politics and affairs of State, but his teachings and his ideas were authoritative.
	www.saintwiki.com /index.php?title=Girolamo_Savonarola (2211 words)

	The Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola
		Savonarola defied the pope preaching it was man's duty to resist the pope when in error, and appealed to a general church council against the pope.
		In 1497 Savonarola was excommunicated by the Pope and was precluded from administering the sacraments.
		Savonarola was declared guilty and a sentence of death was confirmed by Rome.
	www.bvmc.org /history/savonarola.html (1045 words)

	girolamo savonarola
		Girolamo Savonarola was born in Ferrara in 1452.
		Savonarola began to publicly proclaim the Gospel and in his sermons the rich families and also the Roman Catholic Church were accused not to follow Jesus words about poor and humble life.
		Girolamo disobeyed the pope and continued to preach in public against the luxurious life style of the leaders of Roman Church.
	www.florencedream.com /html/savonarola.html (245 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume VI: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1294-1517. \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Savonarola’s recent biographer, Villari, emphasizes "the masterly prudence and wisdom shown by him in all the fundamental laws he proposed for the new state." He had no seat in the council and yet he was the soul of the entire people.
		Savonarola even sought to prove from the pulpit that the papal brief of excommunication proceeded from the devil, inasmuch as it was hostile to godly living.
		Savonarola, clad in white and carrying a monstrance with the host, brought up the rear of the body of monks and these were followed by a great multitude of men, women and children, holding lighted tapers.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc6.ii.x.v.html (10470 words)

	Astrology of Girolamo Savonarola with horoscope chart, quotes, biography, and images
		Savonarola was both a religious incendiary (Mars rising in Aries) and a stern judge of moral rectitude (stern Saturn, the planet of discipline, conjunct Mercury, the planet of thought, exalted in Libra, the sign of judgment—in this case, harsh judgment.
		Girolamo Savonarola meant well, as do so many religious reformers, and was popular at first, but became carried away with his initial success (an intense sixth ray), fell from power (Uranus closely contraparallel the Moon—reversal of popularity) and was finally put to death by the very persons he sought to change.
		Girolamo Savonarola (Ferrara, then Duchy of Ferrara, September 21, 1452 –; Florence, 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.
	www.makara.us /04mdr/01writing/03tg/bios/Savonarola.htm (4103 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola - FREE Girolamo Savonarola Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		When Charles VIII of France invaded Italy in 1494 (as Savonarola had predicted), Savonarola supported him, hoping that Charles would lead the way to the establishment of a democratic government in Florence and to the reform of the scandalously corrupt court of Pope Alexander VI.
		Savonarola studies in Italy on the 500th anniversary.(Italian monk and religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola, who was burned at the stake for heresy in 1498)
		Girolamo Savonarola was born in Ferrara on Sept. 21, 1452.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Savonaro.html (1039 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola@Everything2.com
		Savonarola went on the road, honing his apocalyptic chops, and by 1489, he was ready to take on Florence again.
		Savonarola had always preached an ascetic line, but now his sermons were spiced with the imminent doom of the Revelation, and his message began to take hold.
		Savonarola is a controversial figure in history, and there are some people who revere him for his devotion to faith, his steadfast resistance to authority, and his attachment to a version of democracy.
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	Girolamo Savonarola
		Savonarola rejected their advice and foretold the impending deaths of Lorenzo, of the pope and of the king of Naples.
		Savonarola's program of the new government was comprised in the following formula: (1) fear of God and purification of manners; (2) promotion of the public welfare in preference to private interests; (3) a general amnesty to political offenders; (4) a council on the Venetian model, but with no doge.
		Savonarola's party was apparently annihilated by his death, but, when in 1529-30 Florence was exposed to the horrors predicted by him, the most heroic defenders of his beloved if ungrateful city were Piagnoni who ruled their lives by his precepts and revered his memory as that of a saint.
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	Girolamo Savonarola
		A Dominican friar and prophet, living between 1452-1498, Girolamo Savonarola is considered the forerunner of the Reformation.
		Finally, to prove that their cause had divine support, Savonarola and some of his fellow Dominican friars agreed with the Franciscans to submit to the ordeal of fire but they could not agree on specific details and the ordeal was indefinitely postponed.
		Savonarola was a monk known for his learning and his sanctity, but helpless, almost ludicrous, as a preacher.
	latter-rain.com /eccle/savona.htm (1377 words)

	Squashed Writers - The Life of Girolamo Savonarola by Pasquale Villari - condensed and abridged
		Savonarola's sojourn at Bologna in the Dominican Monastery lasted for seven years, during which his spirit was occupied not only with faith and prayer, but with deep meditation on the miserable condition of the Church.
		Savonarola vehemently denounced the greed of the clergy and their neglect of spiritual life for the sake of mere external ceremonialism, and he with equal insistence inveighed against the corruption of public manners.
		Savonarola was seized and bound by a brutal rabble, and he and two of his monks were lodged in prison.
	www.btinternet.com /~glynhughes/squashed/savonarola.htm (4084 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Savonarola became a Dominican friar in 1475, and entered the convent of San Domenico in Bologna.
		It is said that Savonarola predicted several key events such as the invasion of Italy by a foreign king, the death of Lorenzo de Medici and of Pope Innocent VIII.
		However, Savonarola was convinced of the truth of Catholic doctrine, and unlike Luther, concentrated on purging the Church from immorality, not from supposedly unsound doctrine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola (1417 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola – FREE Girolamo Savonarola Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find Girolamo Savonarola Research
		After the overthrow of the Medici family (1494), Savonarola became leader of Florence, setting up a democratic but severely puritanical government, notable for its bonfire of the vanities,”; in which frivolous materials were burned.
		He was opposed by the Arrabiati, supporters of the Medici, and by Pope Alexander VI, who attempted to restrain his unusual interpretations of scripture and his claim of prophecy.
		Savonarola was tried, convicted of heresy (1498), and hanged and burned.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-377848.html (876 words)

	Savonarola, Girolamo Biography \| eorl_12_package.xml
		Savonarola was born in Ferrara, Italy, and under the eye of his grandfather, the distinguished court physician Michele Savonarola, was educated in religious and liberal studies before going on to medicine.
		Inevitably, however, Savonarola's insistence that the French king was Florence's divinely elected champion led to the city's political isolation in Italy, and the longer Charles put off his return, the lower Savonarola's credit dropped.
		Savonarola and Florence: Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/savonarola-girolamo-eorl-12 (1074 words)

	IDC Publishers - Girolamo Savonarola, Religious and Political Reformer
		Savonarola was among the first authors of the late 15th century to acknowledge the importance of printing as a means of propagating his ideas.
		Savonarola's own Latin version of one of his most influential works, originally composed in Italian as Compendio di rivelazioni (1495), was reprinted successively in Paris and Ulm by August 1496.The rise of Florentine book illustrations is closely linked with the dissemination of Savonarola's writings, since most contemporary editions feature at least one decorative woodcut.
		One sign that Luther regarded Savonarola as a kindred spirit and champion of the same cause despite all the differences was that he arranged a reprint (Wittenberg, 1523) of Savonarola's last two psalm interpretations written immediately before his conviction and execution.
	www.idc.nl /background358_13_44.html (1190 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Girolamo Savonarola
		Savonarola began at once with the inner reform of the monastery itself.
		Savonarola, who was the vicar-general of the new congregation, set the example of a strict
		Savonarola and two other members of the order were condemned to death "on account of the enormous crimes of which they had been
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13490a.htm (1298 words)

	Lecture 5: The Medieval Synthesis Under Attack - Savonarola and the Protestant Reformation
		Savonarola, a man born and bred in the Renaissance, rejected humanism, rejected modern art, rejected the new science, rejected anything that was not oriented toward the divine presence.
		But Savonarola was a man who believed he was made of sterner stuff, and in fact, he believed that he had God on his side in more than just a spiritual manner.
		Savonarola was characteristic of the new, perhaps misdirected piety.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/lecture5a.html (4952 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola biography
		At that time Savonarola was favored by both the government and the church, and his eminent ability led the pope to appoint him vicar-general of the Dominican monks in 1493.
		He wrote the Christian princes with the view of securing their assistance, charging that the church was corrupt, and suggesting to them that a general council should be convoked to secure relief from oppressive practices.
		Writers generally agree that Savonarola was a man of remarkable genius, and an enthusiastic and devoted reformer.
	www.dromo.info /savonarolabio.htm (590 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola
		Italian reformer and martyr, was born at Ferrara on Sept. 21, 1452, the son of Niccolò Savonarola and of Elena Bonaccorsi.
		From this elderly scholar, whose own education was of the 14th century, Savonarola may perhaps have received certain medieval influences.
		In 1482 Savonarola was sent to Florence to take up the post of lecturer in the convent of San Marco, where he gained a great reputation for his learning and asceticism.
	www.tracts.ukgo.com /girolamo_savonarola.htm (282 words)

	Pope Borgia BURNED Italian Reformer Saint Girolamo Savonarola!!
		Guidantonio Vespucci (uncle of Amerigo) was the chief opponent of Saint Girolamo and the enforcer for Pope Borgia in Florence
		Girolamo Savonarola was a Florentine Dominican monk who was HORRIFIED by the scandalous conduct of Pope Borgia and his many bastard children.
		Savonarola, Girolamo Fra, The Triumph of the Cross, (Translated from the Italian), Sands and Co., London, 1901.
	www.reformation.org /girolamo-savonarola.html (1499 words)

	Awake and Go! Global Prayer Network - Girolamo Savonarola
		Born in Ferrara, Italy, September 14, 1452, Savonarola was the third in a family of seven children - five sons and two daughters.
		Some of his biographers relate that on Christmas Eve, in the year 1486, Savonarola, while seated in the pulpit, remained immovable for five hours, in a trance, and that his face seemed illuminated to all in the church.
		Soon Savonarola's fearless sermons aroused the anger of many, and especially of the corrupt pope and cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church.
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