Savonarola

[ sav-uh-nuh-roh-luh; Italian sah-vaw-nah-raw-lah ]

noun

1. Gi·ro·la·mo [ji-, rol, -, uh, -moh, jee-, raw, -lah-maw], 1452–98, Italian monk, reformer, and martyr.

Savonarola

/ savonaˈrɔːla /

noun

1. SavonarolaGirolamo14521498MItalianRELIGION: clergymanRELIGION: religious reformerPOLITICS: political reformer Girolamo (dʒiˈrɔːlamo). 1452–98, Italian religious and political reformer. As a Dominican prior in Florence he preached against contemporary sinfulness and moral corruption. When the Medici were expelled from the city (1494) he instituted a severely puritanical republic but lost the citizens' support after being excommunicated (1497). He was hanged and burned as a heretic

Example Sentences

There are several African objects from the early 19th, late 18th centuries; there’s a 1980s marble pedestal and a reproduction of a Savonarola chair.

From Los Angeles Times

There are several African objects from the early 19th, late 18th centuries; there’s a 1980s marble pedestal and a reproduction of a Savonarola chair.

From Los Angeles Times

It looks as though a few religious reformers — in particular Girolamo Savonarola, the Florentine firebrand — began to be disgusted by the distracting realism of certain new sacred paintings, like the ones that scored artistic points by posing local girls as biblical heroines: “The figures you have made in the churches are in the likeness of one or another woman, which is very badly done and in great disregard for what is God’s,” Savonarola raged.

From New York Times

Some of Savonarola’s contemporaries solved the problem.

From New York Times

“This next question is not—I repeat, not—a multiple guess. You must tap in your answer using the keypad on your tabletop’s tablet computer. We’re still in the category of banned books, only this time they’re more than banned, because these poor books were burned. Here is your question: On what date did the Dominican priest Savonarola collect and publicly burn thousands of lewd books in Florence, Italy?”

From Literature