Mediaeval and modern history . hat he should have seriously advised any oneto adopt their immoral state-craft soon raised against him andhis teachings, especially in theNorth, a storm of protest anddenunciation which has not yetsubsided. Machiavelli founddisciples enough, however, sothat his work had a vast thoughmalign influence in molding thepolitical morality of the six-teenth and seventeenth cen-Savonarola. (After an fvij-igs 271. Savonarola(i45 2-1498).— A word must here be saidrespecting the Florentine monk and reformer Girolamo Savon-arola, who stands as the most noteworthy personage in
Mediaeval and modern history . hat he should have seriously advised any oneto adopt their immoral state-craft soon raised against him andhis teachings, especially in theNorth, a storm of protest anddenunciation which has not yetsubsided. Machiavelli founddisciples enough, however, sothat his work had a vast thoughmalign influence in molding thepolitical morality of the six-teenth and seventeenth cen-Savonarola. (After an fvij-igs 271. Savonarola(i45 2-1498).— A word must here be saidrespecting the Florentine monk and reformer Girolamo Savon-arola, who stands as the most noteworthy personage in Italyduring the closing years of the mediaeval period. Savonarola was at once Roman censor and Hebrew powerful preaching alarmed the conscience of the his suggestion the women brought their finery and ornaments,and others their beautiful works of art, and, piling them in greatheaps in the streets of Florence, burned them as vanities. Savon-arola even urged that the government of Florence be made a. Fig. 46. engraving by Leonardo da Vinciin Vienna Museum) THE UNION OF CALMAR 249 theocracy and Christ be proclaimed king. But finally the activityof his enemies brought about the reformers downfall, and he wascondemned to death, strangled, his body burned, and his ashesthrown into the Arno. Savonarola may be regarded as the last great mediaeval fore-runner of the reformers of the sixteenth century. Yet he mustnot be thought of as a reformer in the same sense that Luther,for instance, was. He was not a precursor of Protestantism. Hestood firmly on Catholic ground. He beheved the Papacy to bea divine institution. He wished, it is true, to reform the Church,but he had no quarrel with its doctrines or its form of government. VII. The Northern Countries 272. The Union of Calmar (1397). — The great ScandinavianExodus of the ninth and tenth centuries drained the Northernlands of some of the best elements of their population. Forthis reason these countries did
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