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...were expelled in 1494 and a Florentine Republic was established (''cf'' [[Savonarola]]). The Medici were restored in 1512 and expelled a second time, when a rep

...tion ([[1498]]) by the teachings of the radical Dominican prior [[Girolamo Savonarola]], whose monomaniacal persecution of the widespread Florentine [[Homosexual ...), followed in [[1498]] by the execution of its its instigator, [[Girolamo Savonarola]]

===Savonarola=== .... This, however, was not done from a desire for civil liberty, but because Savonarola saw in Lorenzo and his court the greatest obstacle to that return to [[Cath

*[[Girolamo Savonarola]] ([[1452]] - [[1498]]), book-burning priest, ruler of [[Florence]]

...ound a republic with Jesus Christ for its king; all these things show that Savonarola was more of a fanatic than a thinker. Nor has he any great merit as a write