. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. ONE of the most interesting figures inFlorence in the fifteenth century wasan humble Dominican friar, who, bythe power of his eloquence, for ashort time fairly controlled the desti-nies of the city; this was GirolamoSavonarola, who, in his writings asin his sermons, made an uncompro-mising stand for purity and September 21, 1452, at Ferrara,Savonarola was originallj- intendedfor the profession of his grandfather,Michele Savonarola, an eminent phy-sician. A diligent student, he became learned even
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. ONE of the most interesting figures inFlorence in the fifteenth century wasan humble Dominican friar, who, bythe power of his eloquence, for ashort time fairly controlled the desti-nies of the city; this was GirolamoSavonarola, who, in his writings asin his sermons, made an uncompro-mising stand for purity and September 21, 1452, at Ferrara,Savonarola was originallj- intendedfor the profession of his grandfather,Michele Savonarola, an eminent phy-sician. A diligent student, he became learned even in youth,and his thoughtfulness early led him into sad musings on theiniquities of man. His melancholy and retired life was tem-porarily interrupted by a dream of love ; but the young Flor-entine girl who had fired the youths heart was the daughterof a Strozzi, whose family pride would not permit a unionwith one so much lower in the social scale. To one of his character, what more natural than thethought of fleeing to the seclusion and rest that the life of amonk seemed to offer?
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