Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola (Ferrara, September 21, 1452 – Florence, May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymous Savonarola, was a Dominican priest and, briefly, ruler of Florence, who was known for religious reformation and anti-Renaissance preaching and his book burning and destruction of art.

Further reading

• Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola by Pasquale Villari
• The novel Romola by George Eliot features Savonarola as a central character.
• The Meddlesome Friar by Michael de la Bedoyere. 1957.
• Savonarola by Piero Misciattelli (trans. by M. Peters-Roberts). 1930.
• Savonarola: A Biography in Dramatic Episodes by William Van Wyck. 1927. (A play.)