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The Prior’s Quarters in the second dormitory (cells 12, 13, and 14) were the home of fire-and-brimstone preacher Girolamo Savonarola from 1481 until his death in 1498 (see page 26).
•1498Savonarola burned in Florence
To the left, Signorelli portrays himself and Fra Angelico as bystanders in the vivid Preaching of the Antichrist (identified here with Savonarola).
Four years later, when Savonarola declined to test the validity of his apocalyptic prophesies with an ordeal by fire, he was arrested, hanged, and ironically burned on the Piazza della Signoria.
But decadence set in and Dominican monk and rabble-rousing preacher Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) denounced the corruption of a Church and society more devoted to pagan classics than to the Christian gospel.