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Girolamo Savonarola began preaching against the moral corruption of the clergy, the worldliness and vice of the city of Florence, and even Pope Alexander VI. He was vehemently opposed to the Renaissance and did not hesitate to burn both books and art he considered immoral. In 1491 he became the head of San Marco, and after the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, and the exile of the Medici family in 1494, he became the both the spiritual and temporal ruler of Florence. His goal was no less than making Florence a Christian commonwealth, of which God was the sole ruler and the Gospel the law.

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