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Title: Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Villari, Pasquale, 1827-1917 Villari, Linda White Mazini, 1836-1915
Subjects: Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498
Publisher: London : T.F. Unwin New York : C. Scribner's
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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s three companions; anevident sign that the pamphlet was even at that time known to be thework, not of Savonarola, but one of his disciples after his death. In fact,the Riccardi copy is bound up with many other pamphlets by Savonarolaand his disciples, and the volume begins with an epistle by Gio. Franc.Pico della Mnandola, * A li electi di Dio abitanti nella città di Firenze and dated TJic Day of Resurrection, 1498. In this epistle Pico exhortshis readers to have faith in the doctrines of Savonarola, whose prophe-cies are all certain to be fulfilled. Possibly, the above quoted pamphletmay also be from the pen of Pico the younger. 1 Trattato sopra i sette gradi della vita spirituale di San Buonaven-tura. An edition of this, dated 1496, is quoted in the bibliographyprefixed to Burlamacchi. The greater part of these Savonarohan pam-phlets were reprinted in various Venetian editions, three of whichappeared in 1535, 1537, and 1538, under the title of, u Molti devotissimitrattati, &c.
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SAVONAROLA VISITING A CONVENT. VARIOUS DEVOTIONAL PAMPHLETS. 579 to the friars of St. Marks.1 In one, On the Exerciseof Charity, he showed how charity may be practisedin all places and conditions, hence, that every trueChristian should say like the philosopher of old—omniamea mecum porto. In another, written in 1497, on theEve of the Assumption, he congratulates them on theirsteadfastness ; and treats, in a third, On the fitting modeof offering prayer. 2 Also, being daily besieged from allsides by requests for letters, he determined to put an endto these demands by his beautiful Epistle to the Sistersof the Third Order of St. Dominic/ 3 commonly known asthe Sisters of Annalena. In this he said : Continualwriting is useless, if those who read take no profit by it.I have already written so much as to include every pointof the Christian life ; wherefore I cannot again take upmy pen, for the fruitless multiplication of tracts. It maybe useful in sermons to repeat the same things over an

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