Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) crusade against political and religious corruption won him huge popularity, and in 1494 he led a revolt in Florence that expelled the ruling Medici family and established a democratic republic.
His denunciations of Pope Alexander VI led to his excommunication in 1497, and in 1498 he was arrested, tortured, hanged, and burned for heresy.
Why is Girolamo Savonarola famous?
Girolamo Savonarola was an Italian reformer, a Dominican friar.
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