Girolamo Savonarola

Renaissance

Resistance to Change

SavonarvolaDominican FriarCalled to Florence 1490Preached against humanism

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Savonarola1492: Lorenzo de Medici dying

Requests Savonarola to administer last rites1: Lorenzo, you must truly repent…agreed. 2: Lorenzo, you must give up your wealth…agreed. 3: Lorenzo, you must renounce any claim on behalf

of the de Medici family to rule Florence and you must allow the city to become a democratic republic. Lorenzo flatly refused.

Savonarola takes control of Florence

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Resistance to Change

The republic of Florence was to be a Christian commonwealth, of which God was the sole sovereign

and His Gospel the law

the most stringent enactments were made for the repression of vice and frivolity…Read Speech Excerpt

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Resistance to ChangeGambling was prohibited Vanities of dress were

restrained by lawsSimple and humble dress Even the women flocked to

the public square to fling down their costliest ornaments

Huge "bonfires of the vanities"

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Bonfires of the VanitiesBurn all books, paintings, sculptures,

luxuries and fineriesJewelry, perfumes, soaps, silks, mirrors, hair

combs, harps, chessboards, playing cards

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A young Gentleman being a Scholler (scholar – learned person, student), fell in love with a Ladie, named Helena, she being a Widdow, and addicted in affection to another Gentleman. One whole night in cold Winter, she caused the Scholler to expect her comming, in an extreame frost and snow. In revenge whereof, by his imagined Art and skill, he made her to stand naked on the top of a Tower, the space of a whole day, and in the hot moneth of July, to be Sunburnt and bitten with Waspes and Flies.

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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Avarice, envy, and prideThree fatal sparks have set the hearts of all on fire

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Bonfires of VanityAny other examples…

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Read your article:1. Summarize article 2. Is it an example of a

bonfire of the vanities? Why/How?

3. Is this sort of thing scary to you?

4. Write a short letter to the person/people in charge of the event you read about?

The End of Savonarola1497

Accused of heresy forFalsely claiming to have visions of God and angels

Accused by Dominicans, Franciscans, and Church officialsHad enough of his evangelism

1498Hanged in the Piazza del Signoria

Resistance to Change Leads to ChangeSavonarola’s attacks were:

1. religious protest2. protest against wealth and splendor 3. protest of a political nature

So, the three ingredients…

Religion, Economics and Politics…

Contributed to the Protestant Reformation.