Savonarola's Writings
- Artist/Author/Producer: Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498)
- Confronting Bodies: The Church
- Dates of action: 1497-98
- Location: Italy, Rome
- Description of the Art Work
- Writings by Savonarola Dominican, a monk and spiritual reformer, who
demanded church reforms and denounced papal corruption.
- Description of 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.
