Execution of Savonarola
1498 · Event
Excommunicated and tortured, the friar who ruled Florence's conscience is hanged and burned in the Piazza della Signoria, on the spot of his Bonfire of the Vanities.
On these timelines: Italy (post-476 CE), Renaissance, Master, Christianity, The Papacy
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