● Italian Dominican priest
● Leader of Florence, 1494-1498
● Book burning, destruction of what he considered immortal art
● Hostility to the Renaissance
● Preached against the moral corruption of clergy
● After Savonarola’s death, a secret Catholic group known as the Piagnoni sprang up in Florence to preserve his memory, organized into a sort of Catholic guild.
● 1498, executed with charges such as heresy, uttering prophecies, sedition, and other religious errors.
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