Savonarole : le moine qui voulait purifier Florence
episodePreviously titled “Savonarole” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 11, 2026
Les grands dossiers de l'Histoire par Franck Ferrand
23 min
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7 chapters
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What made Renaissance Florence a hub of wealth and decadence before Savonarola?
14h-14h30, le meilleur de Franck-Ferrand raconte sur Radio Classique.
On this time of Quattrocento, the 15th century, Florence is not simply a village. When we are already at Florence, we promised a jolly, in a very bad village charged of history and culture, of all sorts of vestiges.
Florence is at the apogee of her. To his luxe, it is also at the apogee of the debauche. The grand compositions of Botticelli, the printeman, the adoration of royal don't idea the luxury. A fool elegant se presse chaque jour on the place of the seigneury, where we admire the soi the plus. We say that the soa and the laine are at the origin of the fortune of Florence, the Purpoint brodés d'or and constelled. And the joyous, this is plenty of the bank, it's plenty of finance that produced that richness. The banquets in music, the mess exquisite, the parfum raffinated five part of the quotidien of the bottom society Florentine, where the murders, disons, are very religious. Florence is reputed as the village of courtisan and gigolos.
I come on by the instance public who have tendance to living at all sorts of more authorized in the society private decadently. Florence n'est pas moins the capital design, the plus financiers of Occident.
The Florentins, the banquiers of Florence, prête to the rois, at all the course of Europe. And voil's in this university luxue and decadent, in this univers faux, corrompu d'esprit and survived a personage who proclaimed with a mother. About the mother, la verità, la probité, la chastete. It's a moine, a moine dominicain d'une bone trentaine d'un yeah. Imaginez-le assez. Oh, il n'est pas beau, huh. Some physique is emassible, he has a grand nez, the years are a moitié exorbitant, but. But visibly this home is illuminated in one sense of term, it is habit by the grass. Alors, who is the Girolamo Savonarola? And it's an jean who is known in a family very aisle, originaire of Padoue. Lui is none of Ferrare in 14th.
Some grandmother was a very cell, and to the family is versed in the medicine. Lui is destined to medicine at the university. It's a jealous cerebral, introverti, a jean appris d'absolu, who at 22 ans, at the suite of a terrible chagrin d'amour, has decided to quit the foyer and send a pied versus the house. Bologne. The pencil of entry in religion, chasse of my eyes just the sole, we will present the monastery of Dominicans of Bologne, and he will enter in religion. Also he utilized the monastery in a few years like jardinian, like, but we will render companies of quality of the esprit of the novice.
Who was Girolamo Savonarola and how did his early life shape his mission?
In 1475, Where he will study the metaphysique. Aristote and Saint Thomas d'Aquin have. He is telling, for too, that we confide the enseignment of novice. And after a new sejour at Bologna and in Lombarddy, that will during other days, the friend Jérôme rent at Florence. dans son couvent de San Marco à la fin de 1490. Or... In June, that's in June 14911, he is prior to Kouvent, and for the first time of his life, he will have the experience of pouvoir in the predications that he confies. The magnetism of that, the food exalted that he is the table, the profound of his reflection, confirmed not only of the ascendant of the novel. And on the ensemble of his auditors, but also a very pouvoir in the city.
We have the grand press at the epoch. It's a little equivalent of the radio, if you can say. We arrive at reunion just to 10 000 people, 10 000 people who suive, literally saisie of admiration, the prêches of Savonarole. Franck Ferrand sur Radio Classique. Frère Jerome will multiplier the sermon, and in his sermons, we will have a lot of prophecies. He is very remarkable by the bone society, Florentine, and Laurent de Médicis in person will remark. The proof is that it's appear at his moral. What are the échanges between Savonarole and Laurent the Magnificent? Person near saw jamais. The vision of Jerome Savonaroll, it's difficult to do. Once one of his co-religionnaires, Frère Sylvestre, had a very vision.
And we say that Jerome Savonarol had tendance to pass with the Frère Sylvestre.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What made Renaissance Florence a hub of wealth and decadence before Savonarola?
0:08–3:55
2
Who was Girolamo Savonarola and how did his early life shape his mission?
3:55–6:45
3
How did Savonarola rise to power and become the voice of the people in 1494‑1495?
6:45–11:23
4
What were the main themes of Savonarola’s sermons and how did they influence Florentine society?
11:23–16:04
5
How did Savonarola’s conflict with the Medici family and the French crown unfold?
16:04–19:17
6
Why did Pope Alexander VI excommunicate Savonarola and what were the consequences?
19:17–22:52
7
What was the “Bonfire of the Vanities” and how did it reflect Savonarola’s vision?
22:52–23:33
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