Dopo tre anni di vita monastica tornò a Roma nel 382 dove divenne segretario di Papa Damaso I e conseguì un notevole successo personale, ma alla morte del Papa il suo prestigio scemò e Girolamo tornò in Oriente, dove fondò alcuni … His devotees, the Piagnoni, were silenced, hunted, tortured, imprisoned and exiled, and the movement, at least as a political force, came to an end. This astounding guarantee may have been an allusion to the traditional patriotic myth of Florence as the new Rome, which Savonarola would have encountered in his readings in Florentine history. He summoned the friar to appear before him in Rome, and when Savonarola refused, pleading ill health and confessing that he was afraid of being attacked on the journey, Alexander banned him from further preaching. In the convent, Savonarola took the vow of obedience proper to his order, and after a year was ordained to the priesthood. He and his close friend, the humanist poet Girolamo Benivieni, composed lauds and other devotional songs for the Carnival processions of 1496, 1497 and 1498, replacing the bawdy Carnival songs of the era of Lorenzo de' Medici. An exchange of letters between the pope and the friar ended in an impasse which Savonarola tried to break by sending the pope "a little book" recounting his prophetic career and describing some of his more dramatic visions. [26] Based on such visions, Savonarola promoted theocracy, and declared Christ the king of Florence. English translation of a Benivieni laud in Borelli, Passaro, Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola 231-3. But after the deluge, like the quails given in the desert to the murmuring people, the poison of flesh-meat was offered to our teeth. Savonarola was born on 21 September 1452 in Ferrara to Niccolò di Michele and Elena. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) [42] In 1530, however, Pope Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici), with the help of soldiers of the Holy Roman Emperor, restored Medici rule, and Florence became a hereditary dukedom. Translation of letter from fra Girolamo to his mother, 25 January 1490, Girolamo Savonarola, A Guide to Righteous Living and Other Works, Konrad Eisenbichler (Toronto, 2003) 38–41. He prophesied the coming of a biblical flood and a new Cyrus from the north who would reform the Church. They encouraged women in local convents and surrounding towns to find mystical inspiration in his example,[40] and, by preserving many of his sermons and writings, they helped keep his political as well as his religious ideas alive. Mary warns that the way will be hard both for the city and for him, but she assures him that God will fulfil his promises: Florence will be "more glorious, more powerful and richer than ever, extending its wings farther than anyone can imagine". In his early poems, he expresses his preoccupation with the state of the Church and of the world. I might speak of the frugality of Pythagoras, Socrates, and Antisthenes to our confusion: but it would be tedious, and would require a work to itself. Again and again Savonarola explains what he finds fault with in contemporary Art, and what he desires to put in place of it. A sudden rain drenched the spectators and government officials cancelled the proceedings. Stripped of their Dominican garments in ritual degradation, they mounted the scaffold in their thin white shirts. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001.htmLetters, The scars of others should teach us caution.Letter 54Letters, When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.Letter 58Letters, Small minds can never handle great themes.Letter 60Letters, Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.Commentary on Isaiah, PrologueCommentaries, Old Testament. In Germany and Switzerland the early Protestant reformers, most notably Martin Luther himself, read some of the friar's writings and praised him as a martyr and forerunner whose ideas on faith and grace anticipated Luther's own doctrine of justification by faith alone. [24] Savonarola declared a new era of "universal peace". Cecil Roth, The Last Florentine Republic (London, 1925). P. 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Declaring that Florence would be the New Jerusalem, the world centre of Christianity and "richer, more powerful, more glorious than ever",[5] he instituted an extreme puritanical campaign, enlisting the active help of Florentine youth. [30] For a time, Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503) tolerated friar Girolamo's strictures against the Church, but he was moved to anger when Florence declined to join his new Holy League against the French invader, and blamed it on Savonarola's pernicious influence. Discussed in Chapter VI of Niccolò Machiavelli's book The Prince ("Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired by One's Own Arms and Ability"), Fra Girolamo Savonarola was seen by Machiavelli as an incompetent, ill-prepared and "unarmed" prophet, unlike "Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus". Weinstein, Donald "Savonarola the Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet" (New Haven, 2011). For editions of the 15th and 16th centuries see Catalogo delle edizioni di Girolamo Savonarola (secc. But once Christ has come in the end of time, and Omega passed into Alpha and turned the end into the beginning, we are no longer allowed divorce, nor are we circumcised, nor do we eat flesh.“, „They fill their houses through the plunder and losses of others, so that the saying of the philosophers may be fulfilled, 'Every rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.' Letter 60; Translated by W.H. From this milieu, in 1952, came the third of the major Savonarola biographies, the Vita di Girolamo Savonarola by Roberto Ridolfi. La Vita del Beato Girolamo Savonarola ed. [41] The return of the Medici in 1512 ended the Savonarola-inspired republic and intensified pressure against the movement, although both were briefly revived in 1527 when the Medici were once again forced out. Politics, society, science and art, were to have the commandments of God for their basis. Letter 54LettersOriginale: (la) Alius vulnus, nostra sit cautio. Under torture Savonarola confessed to having invented his prophecies and visions, then recanted, then confessed again. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol.