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Savonaro

Girolamo Savonarola

Born in 1452, died in 1498; became a Monk in Bologna in 1475; Prior of St. Mark’s in Florence in 1491; secured the overthrow of the Medici, and the restoration of the Republic in 1494, being virtually Dictator; excommunicated in 1497; strangled and burned at the stake in 1498.