On a stormy night in 1475, the prominent Dominican friar and reformer Girolamo Savonarola wrote to his father about the current situation that was affecting his great city of Florence. Savonarola claim of how there was great misery in the world, and how wickedness within the city was coming to a boiling point. The streets of Florence were filled with men whose pride, adulteries, idolatry, placed a vile curses upon the city, in which the world had deteriorated into such a state of chaos. Savonarola believed that the existence of good could no longer be found there, no matter how many times he would pray to have these fates changed. It is with that he pledged leave the lands in which he loved until he could come back and change them, as he could no longer stand blindly to do nothing for the people of
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Girolamo Savonarola letter to his father spelled out the corruption that he believed was destroying the city of Florence along with many other Italian cities. Savonarola believed it was his duty to save the city of Florence and rebuild it in his own idealized image. When Savonarola intervened in the conquest of Charles VIII of France, the Florentines believed Savonarola was their savor, expelling their rulers and formed a republic in 1494. Fra Savonarola believed that Florence would become this new religious center, free from these so called vices that Savonarola had deemed so harmful to the ideal citizen of Florence. With Savonarola in control of the reshaping, he could mold the city into a "richer, more powerful, more glorious than ever". With these ideals, Savonarola believed that he could shape Florence image into a New Jerusalem, were those how lived there would be free of sin, committed to the ways of the lord. Coupled with the idea that Savonarola could bring salvation back to the Florentine people , Machiavelli had studied their blind
Girolamo Savonarola letter to his father spelled out the corruption that he believed was destroying the city of Florence along with many other Italian cities. Savonarola believed it was his duty to save the city of Florence and rebuild it in his own idealized image. When Savonarola intervened in the conquest of Charles VIII of France, the Florentines believed Savonarola was their savor, expelling their rulers and formed a republic in 1494. Fra Savonarola believed that Florence would become this new religious center, free from these so called vices that Savonarola had deemed so harmful to the ideal citizen of Florence. With Savonarola in control of the reshaping, he could mold the city into a "richer, more powerful, more glorious than ever". With these ideals, Savonarola believed that he could shape Florence image into a New Jerusalem, were those how lived there would be free of sin, committed to the ways of the lord. Coupled with the idea that Savonarola could bring salvation back to the Florentine people , Machiavelli had studied their blind