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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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hese relics, carefully cherished and preserved invaluable caskets,2 were worshipped by all the followers ofthe Friar, and for many years served to keep alive their faithin him and their devotion to his convent. That celebratedscholar and philosopher, G. F. Pico the younger, believedthat he possessed a portion of Savonarolas heart recoveredb7 himself from the Arno; and declared that he hadfound it endowed with miraculous powers for healing manymaladies, exorcising evil spirits, and so forth.3 Afterwards,numerous medals of the Friar were struck and engravingsmade of his portrait, and these were much sought afterbut carefully concealed by the devout, for now that the Fra Benedetto, Cedrus Libani. 2 These caskets generally resembled thick round snuff-boxes, with theportrait of Savonarola either painted or in low relief on the lid. Theywere provided with a false bottom under which the ashes were concealed. 3 Pico, Vita, &c, chap. xix. All the othei biographers also mentionthese relics.
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PORTRAIT OF SAVONAROLA.Frani a Medal.) NEWS SENT ABROAD OF THE FRIARS END. 761 Arrabbiati were masters in Florence, their insolent fury%vas not to be lightly braved.1 The same day, after the execution, the Ten wrote toRome and the other Italian Courts, to the effect that thefriars had been put to death in the manner their pesti-ferous sedition deserved. 2 And the Apostolic Commis-sioners not only designated Savonarola as a heretic andschismatic, but dared to charge him with the crimes fromwhich even the falsified depositions concocted by them-selves had completely exonerated him. We have dis-covered, they informed the Pope, that he caused secretsof the confessional to be revealed to him, and that it washis purpose to excite sedition in Florence by breedingdisputes among the citizens. • We found this Friar, or, toavoid calling him either a friar or a man, we should rathersay, this most iniquitous omnipede^ to be a mass of themost abominable wickedness. His disciple. Fra Domenico,dare

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