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Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola, painting by Fra Bartolomeo; in the Museo di San Marco, Florence.
Before joining the Dominican order in 1475, Girolamo Savonarola had earned a degree in the liberal arts and had embarked on medical studies. He pursued these subjects in his hometown of Ferrara, where he was educated by his paternal grandfather, a physician.1