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Girolamo Savonarola, OP (UK: / ˌsævɒnəˈroʊlə /, US: / ˌsævən -, səˌvɒn -/; [4][5][6] Italian: [dʒiˈrɔːlamo savonaˈrɔːla]; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola[7] was an ascetic [8] Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He became known for his prophecies of civic glory ...
A bonfire of the vanities (Italian: falò delle vanità) is a burning of objects condemned by religious authorities as occasions of sin.The phrase itself usually refers to the bonfire of 7 February 1497, when supporters of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola collected and burned thousands of objects such as cosmetics, art, and books in the public square of Florence, Italy, on the occasion ...
The Bonfire of the Vanities. The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist ...
46.5 cm × 32.5 cm (18.3 in × 12.8 in) Location. Museo di San Marco, Florence. The Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola is an oil-on-panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Fra Bartolomeo, created c. 1498. This portrait is believed to have been made when reformer Girolamo Savonarola was still alive and when Fra Bartolomeo was a follower of ...
Duns Scotus. John Duns Scotus OFM (/ ˈskoʊtəs / SKOH-təs; Ecclesiastical Latin: [duns ˈskɔtus], "Duns the Scot"; c. 1265/66 – 8 November 1308) [9] was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian. He is one of the four most important Christian philosopher-theologians of Western Europe ...
Girolamo Savonarola by Fra Bartolomeo, c. 1498.. Infelix ego ("Alas, wretch that I am") is a Latin meditation on the Miserere, Psalm 51 (Psalm 50 in Septuagint numbering), composed in prison by Girolamo Savonarola by 8 May 1498, after he was tortured on the rack, and two weeks before he was burned at the stake in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence on 23 May 1498.
Triumph of the Cross (book) Triumph of the Cross. (book) Triumphus crucis (English: The Triumph of the Cross) is a book by Girolamo Savonarola. [1] It was written to show his feelings about the Catholic church and to refute accusations of heresy. [2] The book was published in the 15th century. It was originally published in Latin but later ...
List of last words. Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of rivals. In his last words, Caesar allegedly exclaimed over the fact that his friend and relative Brutus took part in his murder. A person's last words, their final articulated words stated prior to death or as death approaches, are often recorded because of the decedent's fame ...