Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), Italian priest. Savonarola was a theological reformer who openly criticised the Catholic church for its vice and friv
Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), Italian priest. Savonarola was a theological reformer who openly criticised the Catholic church for its vice and frivolity. In 1498 he was found guilty of heresy and seditious teaching and hanged in Florence with two other priests over a fire. This woodcut portrait is from 'Cosmographie universelle' (1575) by the French explorer and writer Andre Thevet (1516-1590). This book described the history and geography of the lands in which Thevet had travelled. The two volumes and four tomes contain over 1000 pages divided into 23 books. This portrait is from chapter XIX of book XVII.
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