*Ø* Blogmanac May 23, 1498 | Savonarola bows out
1498 Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452), Italian religious fanatic, was burnt at the stake for heresy. He was hanged and cooked, in the same place and in the same manner in which he had had others, pagan and Christian, executed for their 'heresies'.
A Dominican preacher of Florence, Savonarola believed he received divine instructions and carried them out. It was said that he had frequent conversations with God, and the devils that infested his convent trembled at his sight ...
Following the overthrow of the Medici in 1494, Savonarola set up a democratic republic, one of its first acts of which was to make sodomy, previously punishable by fine, into a capital offence.
Bonfire of the Vanities
In 1497 he ordered the notorious Bonfire of the Vanities, sending boys from door to door collecting items associated with moral 'laxity' – mirrors, cosmetics, 'lewd' pictures, pagan or allegedly pagan books, gaming tables, fine dresses, and the works of 'immoral' poets – and burnt them all in a large pile in the Piazza della Signoria of Florence. Fine Florentine Renaissance artwork was lost in Savanarola’s bonfires, including paintings by Sandro Botticelli ...
His enemies dragged him to prison; the odious Pope Alexander VI had him, his champion, and another monk strangled then burned, in the name of the Prince of Peace.
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1498 Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452), Italian religious fanatic, was burnt at the stake for heresy. He was hanged and cooked, in the same place and in the same manner in which he had had others, pagan and Christian, executed for their 'heresies'.
A Dominican preacher of Florence, Savonarola believed he received divine instructions and carried them out. It was said that he had frequent conversations with God, and the devils that infested his convent trembled at his sight ...
Following the overthrow of the Medici in 1494, Savonarola set up a democratic republic, one of its first acts of which was to make sodomy, previously punishable by fine, into a capital offence.
Bonfire of the Vanities
In 1497 he ordered the notorious Bonfire of the Vanities, sending boys from door to door collecting items associated with moral 'laxity' – mirrors, cosmetics, 'lewd' pictures, pagan or allegedly pagan books, gaming tables, fine dresses, and the works of 'immoral' poets – and burnt them all in a large pile in the Piazza della Signoria of Florence. Fine Florentine Renaissance artwork was lost in Savanarola’s bonfires, including paintings by Sandro Botticelli ...
His enemies dragged him to prison; the odious Pope Alexander VI had him, his champion, and another monk strangled then burned, in the name of the Prince of Peace.
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives, with more links, at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
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