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RUNNING HEAD : THE DISPUTATIONS PREACHER

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THE HISTORY OF SAVONAROLA

Known by the name , Girolamo Savonarola , he was born in 1452 Italy however , different sources give varied accounts of his native town some say it is Ferrara while others say it is in Occhiobello , which is 7 km from Ferrara . A man whose life was controversial , dramatic as well as tragic . Savonarola left a mark as a man who cared nothing for dictatorial protocol and official pretense

At Ferrara University , he took his

undergraduate studies in Arts . He initially portrayed his feeling on morally corruption among the clergy at the age of twenty , when he took them head on in his poem titled De Ruina Mundi (on the fall of the world . which bespoke the destruction of the world . Hot on its heels came another poem in 1475 named , De Ruina Ecclesiae (on the downfall of the church . It is here that he portrayed his contempt of the Roman curia by defining it as 'a false whore

Savonarola went on to join the Dominican congregation in the year 1475 , where he entered the San Domenico convent at Bologna . This coincided with the Italian Renaissance . Savonarola immersed himself in his studies with zeal , this saw him transfer to the Convent of Santa Maria Degli Angeli in 1479 . In 1482 he was deployed by the oder to what came later to be known as , the city of his destiny- Florence . People bemoaned his ungainly character and poor oratory skills . The impression he made of himself on the people of Florence was so dismal that , they never noticed his eventual departure in1487 . This took him back to Bologna , where he went on to become the master of studies

Savonarola went on to preach on prophesies he had , such as the occupation of Florence by the French . He went on to become more outspoken and took a hard stance that sometimes ended making him some kind of a misfit among the people . He believed in the classification of issues and actions in only two categories : the good and the bad

Savonarola , was later to fall into bad books with the s of the catholic church . This led to he excommunication by the pope ,who was later to authorize his arrest

All this was later followed his arrest , torture , prosecution and eventual execution ,on grounds of heresy sedition and for proclaiming prophetic statements . His execution took place in 1498 where he was burnt at the stake alongside his two ardent disciples

It is important to note that Savonarola remained defiant onto death This is attested to by the fact that even though he wrote a confession he followed it with a meditation , where he pleaded with God to forgive him for pleading to sins he did not commit . Different schools of thought view Savonarola differently , however all agree that Savonarola is one big disputation theme for all and sundry

Savonarola 's thinking later on came to be known as not only...