Girolamo Savonarola Part 11: Death and Afterlife
Cover Image: Portrait of a Dominican, presumed to be Savonarola. Painting by Moretto da Brescia, 1524.
Closing Theme: "Dies Irae" performed by the Monastic Choir of the Grimbergen Abbey.
Savonarola and his companions are brought before a tribunal and sentenced to death. Despite being formally condemned as a heretic, the friar's legacy would continue to cast a long shadow over Florentine politics in the years to come.
