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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.
•1498Savonarola burned in Florence
A commemorative plaque (near the Baroque fountain) embedded in the piazza marks the spot where Savonarola was executed (see page 26).
To the left, Signorelli portrays himself and Fra Angelico as bystanders in the vivid Preaching of the Antichrist (identified here with Savonarola).
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.