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

The cast of Renaissance characters is also large and somewhat ungainly, populated with outsize historical players that include Michelangelo, Savonarola, Raphael, Niccolò Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, various popes, assorted Medicis and many more.

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

“I will go upstairs to the triple zero room, locate the appropriate encyclopedia volume, and check both ‘Savonarola’ and ‘Shrove Tuesday.’

From Literature

Around 1497, Girolamo Savonarola, a Florentine who fancied himself a kind of moral dictator, turned up his nose at jokes, sex, and any kind of vice.

From Salon

The number of Botticelli paintings in the world would have been higher had the artist not fallen under the spell of the religious zealot Girolamo Savonarola.

From The Guardian