Girolamo Savonarola [SEP] place of death
Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola (, , ; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) was an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule and the exploitation of the poor. He prophesied the coming of a biblical flood and a new Cyrus from the north who would reform the Church. In September 1494, when Charles VIII of France invaded Italy
character and his place in the Renaissance, the Reformation and modern European history. The present-day Church has considered his beatification.
Bibliography.
Bibliography Savonarola's writings.
Almost thirty volumes of Savonarola's sermons and writings have so far been published in the "Edizione nazionale delle Opere di Girolamo Savonarola" (Rome, Angelo Belardetti, 1953 to the present). For editions of the 15th and 16th centuries see "Catalogo delle edizioni di Girolamo Savonarola (secc. xv–xvi)" ed. P. Scapecchi (