Ferrara (Italy) _ At Night_Pt 1

Statue of Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola  (Ferrara, September 21, 1452 - Florence, May 23, 1498) was an Italian religious and political.

Belonging to the order of  Dominican friars in 1497 he was excommunicated by Pope

Alexander VI, the year after he was hanged and burned at the stake as a "heretic, schismatic, and for preaching new things" and his works were ncluded in the 1559 Index of Prohibited Books.



Now is the servant of God present, the cause of her beatification was introduced May 30, 1997 by the Archdiocese of Florence.

The statue of Savonarola, is located in the square, located in the medieval center of town.

The dominant element of the square is the statue of the monk Girolamo Savonarola of Ferrara,which opened in 1875, which stands at the center of the square, supported by a large white marble pedestal.