Frases de Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola , cujo nome é por vezes traduzido como Jerônimo Savonarola ou Hieronymous Savonarola, foi um padre dominicano e pregador na Florença renascentista que ficou conhecido por suas profecias, pela destruição de objectos de arte e artigos de origem secular e seus apelos de reforma da igreja católica.

Savonarola veio de uma antiga e tradicional família de Ferrara. Devotou-se ao estudo da filosofia e medicina e em 1474, durante uma viagem a Faenza, ouviu um sermão proferido por um padre agostiniano, que o fez resolver renunciar ao mundo, incorporando-se à ordem dominicana na Bolonha sem o conhecimento de seus pais.

Savonarola declarava-se um profeta, e escreveu sobre suas visões em seu Compendium revelationum, em que ele associava a corrupção do clero com um dilúvio de pecados e libertinagem e o rei Carlos VIII da França a um "novo Ciro". Quando a França invadiu a Itália e ameaçou intervir na Florença em 1494, essas profecias pareceram se realizar e Savonarola conseguiu suporte público para afastar os Médici do poder e declarar a Florença uma "república popular".

Em 1495, quando a Florença recusou participar da Santa Liga junto ao Vaticano para se opôr à invasão francesa, Savonarola foi convocado a Roma pelo papa Alexandre VI. Savonarola recusou a convocação e prosseguiu a desafiar o papa, pregando sob uma proibição, declarando Florença uma nova Jerusalém: o novo centro do cristianismo no mundo, e começando uma campanha puritana que é lembrada especialmente em virtude das suas recorrentes "fogueiras das vaidades". Nesses eventos, obras de arte, livros e outros objectos que eram considerados produtos da vaidade humana, luxo desnecessário ou de natureza imoral eram coletados e queimados publicamente. Obras de Ovídio, Propertius, Dante, Boccaccio, Botticelli e Lorenzo di Credi, entre outros, foram queimadas nesses eventos, que por sua vez não passaram despercebidos pelo Vaticano. Em retaliação, o papa excomungou Savonarola em maio de 1497, e ameaçou uma interdição em Florença.

Uma ordália foi proposta por um pregador rival na Florença em 1498 para testar a investidura divina de Savonarola, o que resultou em um fiasco e reverteu a opinião popular contra ele, sendo Savonarola preso com mais dois frades seus aliados. Sob tortura, Savonarola confessou que havia inventado suas visões e profecias e, em 23 de maio de 1498, a igreja católica e as autoridades civis condenaram os três frades à morte por enforcamento e a serem queimados em praça pública.

Durante sua campanha reformadora, Savonarola recebeu apoio de jovens seguidores que passaram a ser conhecidos como "piagnoni", que tentaram manter a sua política durante o século seguinte, mas o movimento foi afinal desmantelado pelo restabelecimento dos Médici no poder. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Setembro 1452 – 23. Maio 1498
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Girolamo Savonarola: 12   citações 4   Curtidas

Girolamo Savonarola frases e citações

Girolamo Savonarola: Frases em inglês

“If he that would summon a Parliament be of the Signoria, let his head be cut off”

Sermon of July 28, 1495, which historian Ludwig Pastor calls Savonarola's "sermon against the tumultuous assemblies, misnamed parliaments, which the Medici encouraged to serve their own ends", as quoted in History of the Popes (1898) by Ludwig Pastor, vol. 5, p. 209. http://books.google.com/books?id=MZ4YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209&dq=%22let+his+head+be+cut+off%22+savonarola&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H-ElT-DWOLGpsAKxqP2MAg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22let%20his%20head%20be%20cut%20off%22%20savonarola&f=false
Contexto: If he that would summon a Parliament be of the Signoria, let his head be cut off; if he be not of it, let him be proclaimed a rebel and all his goods confiscated; … should the Signoria seek to call a Parliament … all may cut them to pieces without sin.

“Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.”

Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124
Contexto: God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

“The Pope may err, and that in two ways, either because he is erroneously informed, or from malice. As to the latter cause we leave that to the judgment of God, and believe rather that he has been misinformed.”

Sermon (18 February 1498) http://books.google.com/books?id=92QaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA26&dq=%22savonarola+asserted+in+his+sermon+on%22&hl=en&ei=i1uNTYXyFMPH0QGf682zCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22savonarola%20asserted%20in%20his%20sermon%20on%22&f=false, as translated in History of the Popes (1901) by Ludwig Pastor, as translated by Frederick Ignatius Antobus, Vol. 6, p. 26
Contexto: The Pope may err, and that in two ways, either because he is erroneously informed, or from malice. As to the latter cause we leave that to the judgment of God, and believe rather that he has been misinformed. In our own case I can prove that he has been falsely persuaded. Therefore any one who obstinately upholds the excommunication and affirms that I ought not to preach these doctrines is fighting against the kingdom of Christ, and supporting the kingdom of Satan, and is himself a heretic, and deserves to be excluded from the Christian community.

“The reason why I entered into a religious order is this: first, the great misery of the world, the wickedness of men, the rapes, the adulteries, the thefts, the pride, the idolatry, the vile curses, for the world has come to such a state that one can no longer find anyone who does good”

Letter to his father (25 April 1475), as quoted in A Guide to Righteous Living and Other Works (2003) as translated by Konrad Eisenbichler, p. 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=5GLhEQiogQ8C&pg=PA17&dq=%22wickedness+of+men,+the+rapes,+the+adulteries,+the+thefts,+the+pride,+the+idolatry%22&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22wickedness%20of%20men%2C%20the%20rapes%2C%20the%20adulteries%2C%20the%20thefts%2C%20the%20pride%2C%20the%20idolatry%22&f=false
Contexto: The reason why I entered into a religious order is this: first, the great misery of the world, the wickedness of men, the rapes, the adulteries, the thefts, the pride, the idolatry, the vile curses, for the world has come to such a state that one can no longer find anyone who does good; so much so that many times every day I would sing this verse with tears in my eyes: Alas, flee from cruel lands, flee from the shores of the greedy. I did this because I could not stand the great wickedness of the blind people of Italy, especially when I saw that virtue had been completely cast down and vice raised up.

“I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.”

As quoted in Books: The Sword of God" in TIME (17 August 1959) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,937912,00.html, a review of The Life Of Girolamo Savonarola by Roberto Ridolfi, translated by Cecil Grayson

“Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.”

Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 378

“I was not commissioned to preach by any man in this world, nor by any lord, but by Him who is the Lord of lords and by the Holy Trinity.”

E fu in quel tempo che io montai quassù, e dissi che io non era mandato a predicarti da uomo del mondo, né da signore alcuno, ma da colui che è signore dei signori e dalla santa Trinità.
Sermon of 18 February 1498, as quoted in Material for a History of Pope Alexander VI, His Relatives and His Time, 5 vols. http://www.attomelani.net/?page+id=143, (1924) by Monsignor Peter de Roo, Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer, volume 3, p. 265. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=%22+lord+of+lords+and+by+the+holy+trinity%22&btnG=#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&tbo=1&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=%22lord+of+lords+and+by+the+holy+trinity%22&pbx=1&oq=%22lord+of+lords+and+by+the+holy+trinity%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=7992l7992l0l9097l1l1l0l0l0l0l248l248l2-1l1l0&fp=1&biw=1133&bih=590&cad=b&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb Basic searches to find frequency and page number of specific words and phrases for all five volumes http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001925194 at HathiTrust.
Scelta di Prediche e Scritti di Fra Girolamo Savonarola, con Nuovi Documenti Intorno alla Sua Vita (Selection of Sermons and Writings of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, with New Documents concerning his Life), 1898, Pasquale Villari, E. Casanova, Firenze (Florence), G. E. Sansoni, edition, p. 288. http://books.google.com/books?id=yKpZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA288&dq=%22predicarti+da+uomo+del+mondo+n%C3%A8+da+Signore+alcuno,+ma+da+Colui+%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A9klT9b_EKypsALV3tiMAg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22ma%20da%20colui%20che%20%C3%A8%20signore%20dei%20signori%20e%20dalla%20santa%20Trinit%C3%A0%22&f=false
Jérôme Savonarole: d'après les Documents Originaux (Girolamo Savonarola: According to the Original Documents), 1856, François Tommy Perrens, Paris, appendice, p. 352. http://books.google.com/books?id=5W02AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA352&dq=%22ma+da+colui+che+%C3%A8+signore%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=l_0lT5ijMqWJsgK5jLWMAg&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22ma%20da%20colui%20che%20%C3%A8%20signore%22&f=false

“Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.”

Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 481

“I counsel you to return to God, to live after the manner of a good Christian, to repent the past, and recur to piety. Otherwise, I make known to you that severe chastisement awaits you, and that you shall be scourged in your substance, your flesh, and your kindred.
Likewise I announce to you that your life is near its end; that if you obey not my words, you will go to hell, and this letter will be brought up against you before the judgment-seat of God, and leave you no way of escape.”

Io vi conforto di convertirvi a Dio, vivere come è obbligato ogni buon cristiano, dolervi del passato e ridurvi alla pietà. Altrimenti, io vi annunzio che è sopra di voi imminente un gran flagello, e sarete flagellato nella roba, nella persona e nella casa vostra.
Vi annunzio ancora, che della vostra vita ce n' è per poco; che, se non farete quel che vi dico, anderete nell'inferno; e questa lettera vi sarà presentata innanzi al tribunale di Dio, nè vi potrete scusare.
To the prince of Mirandola, Count Galeotto Pico, brother of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (26 March 1496), as quoted in Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola (1888) http://books.google.com/books?id=7qgTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA442&dq=%22if+you+obey+not+my+words+you+will+go+to+hell%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rlP2TvvdIoeC2wW1mcWtAg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22if%20you%20obey%20not%20my%20words%20you%20will%20go%20to%20hell%22&f=false by Pasquale Villari, translated by Linda Villari, p. 442; also in Le lettere di Girolamo Savonarola (The letters of Jerome Savonarola), 1933, Roberto Ridolfi, L. S. Olschki, p. 107. http://books.google.com/books?ei=1dclT43LF5GnsALZybGMAg&id=NCs8AAAAMAAJ&dq=%22potrete+scusare%22+savonarola+1496&q=%22potrete+scusare%22+#search_anchor

“Behold the sword of the Lord will descend suddenly and quickly upon the earth.”
Ecce gladius Domini super terram, cito et velociter.

Motto he beheld in a vision (December 1492), as quoted in History of the Christian Church, Vol. V (1910) by Philip Schaff, and David Schley Schaff p. 688
Behold the sword of the Lord, swift and sure, over the earth.
As quoted in Books: The Sword of God" in TIME (17 August 1959)

“Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God.”

Colui che scomunica me scomunica Dio.
A History of the Church: The Revolt Against the Church: Aquinas to Luther, (1947, 1979, 1993), by Philip Hughes, Vol. 3, p. 493 http://www.freivald.org/~jake/church-history/historyOfTheChurch_volume3chapter5.html Google books file http://books.google.com/books?id=L2nvpmOLdLwC&pg=PA493&dq=savonarola+%22excommunicates+god%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=savonarola%20%22excommunicates%20god%22&f=false ISBN 0722079834 ISBN 9780722079836