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	Savonarola - Search View - MSN Encarta
		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.
		During an outbreak of the plague Savonarola, prevented by the excommunication from administering the sacred offices, devoted himself zealously to ministering to the sick monks.
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	Girolamo Savonarola
		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.
		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 - LoveToKnow Article on GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		Savonarolas party was apparently annihilated by his death, hut, when in 1529-1530 Florence was exposed to the horrora 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.
	65.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAVONAROLA_GIROLAMO.htm (7593 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 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)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Girolamo Savonarola
		By a further Brief of 8 September the Dominican was forbidden to preach, and the monastery of San Marco was restored to the Lombard Congregation.
		Savonarola sought to justify himself, and declared that, as regards his teaching, he had always submitted to the judgment of the Church.
		Savonarola and two other members of the order were condemned to death "on account of the enormous crimes of which they had been convicted".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13490a.htm (1947 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)

	Jesuits and Dominicans square off anew over Savonarola
		“Savonarola was not a heretic but was burnt for his obstinate fidelity to the gospel,” Fr.
		As evidence of his powerful charisma, Savonarola managed to convince the highly humanistic Florentines to surrender their mirrors, dice, cards, cosmetics and nude paintings and burn them all in the Piazza di Signoria in a towering bonfire of the vanities.
		One of the charges that led to Savonarola’s downfall was that he impoverished the city by refusing to ever turn away a beggar.
	natcath.org /NCR_Online/archives2/1999a/012299/012299g.htm (1192 words)

	Savonarola Bio: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Savonarola was one of many to accept this view, and he wove Joachim's message into his own preaching.
		It was Savonarola's alliance with the French, not his biting criticism of the papacy in general and Alexander VI (r.
		Savonarola, on the one hand, has been periodically considered for canonization; certain Catholic saints of the Catholic reformation such as Philip Neri (1515-1595) and Catherine de' Ricci (1522-1590) and reformers such as Luis of Granada (1504-1588) held him in high regard.
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	Girolamo Savonarola, 1452-1498
		The Italian religious and political reformer, Girolamo Savonarola, was born of a noble family at Ferrara and in 1474, entered the Dominican order at Bologna.
		In 1497 came a sentence of excommunication from Rome; and thus precluded from administering the sacred offices, Savonarola zealously tended the sick monks during the plague.
		Savonarola was again ordered to desist from preaching, and was fiercely denounced by a Franciscan preacher, Francesco da Puglia.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/savonarola.html (550 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.
		When the Medici were driven out in 1494, Savonarola was the principal maker of the democratic Florentine Republic based on equality of rights and duties.
	www.florencedream.com /html/savonarola.html (245 words)

	V. - Thomas Pynchon
		Savonarola was an Italian religious and political reformer, born of a noble family in Ferrara.
		The republic of Florence was to be a Christian commonwealth, of which God was the sole sovereign, and His Gospel the law; the most stringent enactments were made for the repression of vice and frivolity; gambling was prohibited; the vanities of dress were restrained by sumptuary laws.
		In morals and religion, not in theology, Savonarola may be regarded as a forerunner of the Reformation.
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	Jerome Savonarola - Sketches of Church History
		Savonarola was born in 1452 at Ferrara, where his grandfather had been physician to the duke; and his family wished him to follow the same profession.
		Savonarola did his part firmly, and pointed out some of Lorenzo's acts as being those of which he was especially bound to repent.
		Savonarola had a long trial, during which he was often tortured; but whatever might be wrung from him in this way, he afterwards declared that it was not to be believed, because the weakness of his body could not bear the pain of torture, and he confessed whatever might be asked of him.
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	Girolamo Savonarola
		Savonarola preached in Florence and led the sort of moral crusade that we call puritanical, more a fanatic than a saint, like most extreme puritans.
		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.
	www.latter-rain.com /eccle/savona.htm (1377 words)

	Savonarola
		When Girolamo Savonarola started preaching his "Haggai" sermons in the Advent of 1494 - a moment of humiliation and renewal for Florence - he was calling on Florentines to abandon their individualizing weaknesses and forge a republic of virtue with their universal good nature.
		As it happened, Savonarola was also a precursor of the Reformers; many of his charges against Rome would be repeated by Luther.
		Savonarola may have been an anachronism who came to look to us like a man of the future.
	www.portifex.com /Dates/Archive/Savonarola.htm (1132 words)

	Nostradamus - People - Savonarola - Savonarola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		From 1493 Savonarola spoke with increasing violence against the abuses in ecclesiastical life, against the immorality of a large part of the clergy, above all against the immoral life of many members of the Roman Curia, even of the wearer of the tiara, Alexander VI, and against the wickedness of princes and courtiers.
	www.propheties.it /nostradamus/savonarola/savonarola.htm (8012 words)

	CliffsNotes::The Prince:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Savonarola was a reformer who railed against the luxurious extravagances of the Florentines and the sins of Italy in general.
		Chief among the sinners that Savonarola denounced was the infamous Pope Alexander VI, whose riches and lascivious lifestyle perfectly represented the corruption that Savonarola sought to purge.
		Savonarola’s opponents in Florence, urged on by Alexander, were becoming more vocal, and bad economic times in Florence meant that Savanarola’s influence was waning.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-148,pageNum-79.html (440 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.
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	Girolamo Savonarola
		Savonarola preached in Florence and led the sort of moral crusade that we call puritanical, more a fanatic than a saint, like most extreme puritans.
		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)

	Encyclopedia: Girolamo Savonarola
		Girolamo Savonarola (Ferrara, September 21, 1452 â“ Florence, May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymous Savonarola, was a Dominican priest and, briefly, ruler of Florence, who was known for religious reformation and anti-Renaissance preaching and his book burning and destruction of art.
		Fine Florentine Renaissance artwork was lost in Savonarola's notorious bonfires, including paintings by Sandro Botticelli thrown on the pyres by the artist himself.
		In the twentieth century, a movement for the canonization of Savonarola began to develop within the Catholic Church, with many judging his excommunication and execution to have been unjust.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Girolamo-Savonarola (1558 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages by George Hodges
		Savonarola had intended to be a doctor, like his grandfather; though even as a lad he was interested in theology, and looked [259] out upon the world with serious eyes.
		And then, as he preached again, he had [261] a vision of a flaming sword, and heard voices promising the mercy of God to the faithful and the wrath of God to the unfaithful, and, as he looked, the sword was lifted against the earth amidst the flash of lightnings and the crash of thunders.
		A bronze tablet in the pavement of the great square of Florence shows where Savonarola and his friends were first hanged and then burned for their attack upon the wickedness of the world and of the Church.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=hodges&book=saints&story=savonarola (1626 words)

	Glimpses bulletin #92: Savonarola: How to get burned
		Savonarola shook the population by his sermons from Revelation, warning of the wrath to come.
		In one of his sermons Savonarola told of seeing a hand appearing in the sky bearing a flaming sword with the words, "Behold the sword of the Lord will descend suddenly and quickly upon the earth." He warned of judgment for sins and mercy to the faithful.
		Savonarola was not the first notable Christian to be turned upon by the city of Florence.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps092.shtml (2078 words)

	Girolamo Savonarola Summary
		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.
		Savonarola and Florence: Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance.
		Savonarola became a Dominican monk in 1475, and entered the convent of San Domenico in Bologna.
	www.bookrags.com /Girolamo_Savonarola (2958 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Jesuits and Dominicans square off anew over Sav... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As evidence of his powerful charisma, Savonarola managed to convince the highly humanistic Florentines to surrender their mirrors, dice, cards, cosmetics and nude paintings and burn them all in the Piazza di Signoria in a towering bonfire of the vanities.
		One of the charges that led to Savonarola's downfall was that he impoverished the city by refusing to ever turn away a beggar.
		In an age of corruption, Savonarola represented honest government, making him something of a patron for the current Italian drive to break the grip of cronyism and political patronage that has long dominated their politics.
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	Savonarola, Girolamo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
		Alexander, understandably infuriated, ordered Savonarola to refrain from preaching; however, he continued to preach, and the pope excommunicated him for disobedience in 1497.
		Nevertheless, there were riots, and Savonarola and two disciples were arrested by the city.
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		Besides, Savonarola was one of the few who had the wits for government.90 The Medicean reign had long reduced the people to incompetence by denying them responsibility and spoiling them with pleasure.91 During the drafting of the constitution, the young Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) offered theories, but the priest proved more practical.
		Savonarola was not a "trail blazer for John Calvin," who sent others to the gallows, but rather, "one of the trail blazers of the Council of Trent" who went to the gallows himself.132 In fact, Savonarola helped to preserve Italy from Protestantism, and nearly the world.
		Savonarola had said to the Florentines, “Remember that the Lord has given you plain signs of his purpose to renew all things and that you are the people chosen to begin a great world-wide enterprise provided you follow the will of him who calls and invites you to the spiritual life.
	www.op-stjoseph.org /sacredheart/pages/Savonarola.htm (9517 words)

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