Once, in obedience to a voice he heard and interpreted as the voice of God, Savonarola preached one of his most terrifying sermons. |
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Such language, even coming as it was from the mouth of a Dominican friar, was bound to get Savonarola in trouble. |
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A member of the third order of the Dominicans, he had the tertiary name of Jerome, in honor of the Florentine zealot Savonarola. |
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While Lippi was completing the Strozzi commission, Florentines were listening to Savonarola inveighing against the deceitful seductions of modern painters. |
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The people of Florence are far from considering themselves ignorant and benighted, and yet Brother Savonarola succeeded in persuading them that he held converse with God. |
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Next comes a corridor where a miscellany of drawings, a small but exquisite textile and two engraved gems, one of Lorenzo the Magnificent and one of Savonarola, are displayed. |
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But when Savonarola publicly accused Pope Alexander VI of corruption, he was banned from speaking in public. |
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