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Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola, painting by Fra Bartolomeo; in the Museo di San Marco, Florence.
Girolamo Savonarola was executed on May 23, 1498, in Florence, Italy. Following an ecclesiastical trial, he and two of his followers were handed over to the secular authorities to be hanged and burned.12