Savonarola Executed in Florence
May 23, 1498
The friar who had preached Florence into penitence was hanged and burned in the same piazza where he had conducted his bonfires. The papal commission had tortured him to confess. His ashes were scraped into the Arno. The republic went back to painting nudes and banking. The Medici would return within four years.
In context
Also in 1498 (5 other events on record)
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- Durer Publishes Apocalypse Woodcuts · Europe · Culture
- Louis XII Becomes King of France · Europe · Politics
- Cabot's Second Voyage Lost · North America · Exploration
Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1497: Cornish Rising
- After: August 12, 1499: Battle of Zonchio
Before and after in Religion
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.