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Girolamo Savonarola was born in 1452 and died by hanging and burning in 1498.

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He became a  Dominican Friar preaching in and around the city of Florence, Italy. Savonarola lived during the time of the greatest masters of the Renaissance including Sandro Botticelli and Michelangelo. He despised the decadence of the Renaissance and believed that the Pope and church hierarchy were corrupt to the core (he may have been right about this).

Savonarola declared "They have built up a new Church after their own patter.

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Go to Rome and see! In the mansions of the great prelates there is no concern save for poetry and the oratorical art. Go thither and see!"

Savonarola sermonized before huge throngs with fiery passion and quickly earned enormous influence over not only the common peasant but artists, writers and the ruling elites.

He truly believed that God had given him the task of calling people to ask forgiveness and save their souls before the impending day of judgment. M