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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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ged in the deepestdepression. While ruling the whole people from hispulpit, with all hanging on his words, and the whole cityobedient to his will, he could yet feel no joy. The futurelooked dark to his eyes, and he vainly tried to throw offhis gloomy presentiments. I am weary, O Florence,after the four years of incessant preaching, in which I havespent my strength for thee alone. Likewise am I boweddown bv constant thought of the scourge I behold drawingnear, and by fear lest it overwhelm thee. Wherefore Ioffer up unceasing prayers for thee to God/1 And it wasue that the tempting hopes and promises he had heldto Florence had always been conditional : If ye turn 1 Predica xxiii., sopra Aggeo.* HIS PRESENTIMENTS OF ILL. 30? not to the Lord, the joyful tidings shall become tidings ofwoe. And the people being so hardened in sin, thefuture of Italy, b orence, and the Church naturally seemedsun?™ * t0 threatened with increasing danger andThus, precisely at the time when he might have been
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SAVONAROLA TREACHING. Zt f wY Ì e P.resentiments. After the victorious-suit of has first political conflict ; after seeing the lawpried for the establishment of a popular governmentith a grand council ; when all Florence was thronging>und his pulpit in the hope of hearing some joyful out-jrst of thanksgiving to the Lord—he again began to•each in his former allegorical strain, describing the sad- io3 un dim mas . eighing on his soul, and pn jring the \; th he had always, apparently, known himself Iuth, hebegan, left his hoi forth tncU while fishing» the master of the baifar to sea, and out of sight of the port; whern the youth burst into loud lamentations, O Florence !■ lamenting youth standeth here in this pulpit. I wasled from mineown home to the port of religion, and IBit thither at the age of twenty-three years in search ofthe two things most dear to me—liberty and quiet. Butthen I looked on the waters of this world, and by preach-ing I began to win a few souls ; and s

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