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Title: Where ghosts walk : the haunts of familiar characters in history and literature
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harland, Marion, 1830-1922
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Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lows and funeral pyre ii8 Where Ghosts Walk erected over there in the square, Savona-rola was overheard by his executionersrepeating to himself: / believe in God,the Father Almighty, Maker of Heavenand earth, and in Jes2LS Christ, His OnlySon, our Lord and so on to the close ofthe Creed. For three-hundred-and-odd years thewomen of Florence used to resort to thePiazza della Signoria to lay flowers uponthe spot where rested the gallows foot onthe 23d of May, 1498, in grateful memoryof the prophet whom their fathers hadkilled. In Heaven, said a successor of thePope who ordered the deed, I shallknow the explanation of three great mys-teries—the Immaculate Conception, thesuppression of the Society of Jesus, thedeath of Savonarola. . . . Saint, schis-matic, or heretic, ignorant vandal or Chris-tian artist, prophet, or charlatan, championof the Roman Church, or apostle of eman-cipated Italy—which was Savonarola? The Church by whose Infallible Headhe was brought to the torture-chamber and
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PALAZZO VECCHIO, FLORENCE.Where Savonarola was imprisoned, and in front of which he was burned. The Prophet of San Marco 119 the scaffold, and the world that was notworthy of him, give a tardy answer. A certain Monseigneur, a Lord Cardi-nal, interested himself actively in a cele-bration of the four hundredth anniversaryof Savonarolas martyrdom. Therewere memorial services and a solemnmass in honour of him who was born fourcenturies too soon, the Italian Luther,whose eyes were not to behold the dawnof the Reformation his faith forecast.

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