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In 1498, Savonarola was executed. Unconventional yet popular with the masses, he differed from the established church: Philip Schaff: By the general consent of Protestants, Jerome Savonarola is numbered among the precursors of the Reformation,—the view taken by Ranke. He was not an advocate of its distinguishing tenet of justification by faith. The Roman church was for him the Read more...