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Girolamo Savonarola   Listen
Girolamo Savonarola

noun
1.
Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498).  Synonym: Savonarola.






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"Girolamo Savonarola" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cellini calls these magistrates 'arronzinati cappuccetti,' a term corresponding to our Roundheads. The democratic or anti-Medicean party in Florence at that time, who adhered to the republican principles of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, distinguished themselves by wearing the long tails of their hoods twisted up and turned round their heads. Cellini shows his Medicean sympathies by using this contemptuous term, and by the honourable mention he makes of ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini



Words linked to "Girolamo Savonarola" :   reformer, social reformer, crusader, reformist, friar preacher, Dominican, Black Friar, Savonarola, Blackfriar, meliorist



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