Girolamo Savonarola
Date: 1000 - 1499 [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Region: Europe [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]
Subject: Religious [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Medium: Literature [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Artist: Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498)
Confronting Bodies: The Church
Dates of Action: 1497-98
Location: Italy, Rome
Description of Artwork: Writings by Savonarola Dominican, a monk and spiritual reformer, who demanded church reforms and denounced papal corruption.
The Incident: 1497 Italy-Florence: Savonarola attempted to turn the pleasure loving Florentines from their "pagan" ways and turned the annual carnival into a "burning of the vanities", including works by Ovid, Propertius and Boccaccio.
Results of Incident: 1498 Italy: He was forced by tortures on the rack to confess his heresy in demanding church reforms and in denouncing papal corruptions. After the ceremonial of degradation, he was hung on a cross and burned with all his writings, sermons, essays, and pamphlets.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B. Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978. [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]]
