I almost believe in reincarnation.

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Santorum is the next life of Savonarola. Those 2 are scary peas in a pod.

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Under Lorenzo the Magnificent art and literature had felt the humanist revival of the 15th century, whose spirit was utterly at variance with Savonarola's conception of spirituality and Christian morality. To the adherents of the Medici therefore, Savonarola early became an object of suspicion but till the death of Lorenzo in 1492, his relations with the Church were at least not antagonistic and when, in 1493, a reform of the Dominican order in Tuscany was proposed under his auspices, it was approved by the pope, and Savonarola was named the first vicar-general.

But now his preaching began to point plainly to a political revolution as the divinely-ordained means for the regeneration of religion and morality, and he predicted the advent of the French under Charles VIII, whom soon after he welcomed to Florence. Soon, however, the French were compelled to leave Florence, and a republic was established, of which Savonarola became the guiding spirit, his party ("the Weepers&quot being completely in the ascendant.

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. Gambling was prohibited an the vanities of dress were restrained by sumptuary laws. Even the women flocked to the public square to fling down their costliest ornaments and Savonarola's followers made huge "bonfires of the vanities."

Meanwhile, his rigor and claim to the gift of prophecy led to his being cited in 1495 to answer a charge of heresy at Rome and on his failing to appear he was forbidden to preach. Savonarola disregarded the order, but his difficulties at home increased. The new system proved impracticable and although the conspiracy for the recall of the Medici failed, and five of the conspirators were executed, yet this very rigor hastened the reaction.
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http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/savonarola.html

[lunatica]

1. So, do we have to go google it now?

Couldn't you write a synopsis paragraph or two?

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. Sorry!

I had to desert quickly.

[lunatica]

5. thanks!

I had to bolt too, which is why I didn't have time to google.

[ananda]

2. Not exactly.

Look up Savonarola and the situation in Florence with the Medicis in charge.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. He was at odds with the Catholic Church.

However, he did want his views on religion to be the standard. In this regard, he and Santorum are very much alike.

Santorum is a devout Catholic with his model of that religion as the Ideal. Savonarola was against the Catholic Church, but he also had a very strict code of religion.