Editing Girolamo Savonarola (section)

== Cultural influence ==
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=== Music ===
* [[William Byrd]] used the text of Savonarola's ''[[Infelix ego]]'' in his work of the same name as part of the ''[[William Byrd#Cantiones sacrae (1589 and 1591)|Cantiones Sacrae 1591]]'', pp. xxiv–xvi.
* [[Charles Villiers Stanford]] wrote an [[opera]] titled ''Savonarola'', which had its premiere in [[Hamburg]] on 18 April 1884.<ref>Grove's Dictionary, 5th ed.</ref>
* [[Luigi Dallapiccola]] used text from Savonarola's Meditation on the Psalm ''My hope is in Thee, O Lord'' in his 1938 choral work ''[[Canti di prigionia]]''.

=== Fiction ===
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* [[Nikolaus Lenau|Lenau, Nikolaus]], ''Savonarola'' (poem, 1837)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenau |first1=Nicolaus |title=Savonarola ein Gedicht |date=1837 |publisher=J.G. Cotta |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_hl0uAAAAYAAJ |access-date=4 March 2021 |language=German}}</ref>
* [[George Eliot|Eliot, George]], ''[[Romola]]'' (novel, 1863)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eliot |first1=George |title=Romola |date=2005 |publisher=Broadview Press |location=Peterborough, Ont. |isbn=1-55111-757-6}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Mann|Mann, Thomas]], ''[[Fiorenza (play)|Fiorenza]]'' (play, 1909)<ref>{{cite web |title=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek |url=http://d-nb.info/gnd/4137085-5 |website=portal.dnb.de}}</ref>
* Herrmann, Bernhard, ''Savonarola im Feuer'' (1909)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herrmann |first1=Bernhard |editor1-last=Kreutzmann |editor1-first=Felix |title=Savonarola im Feuer |date= 2013 |pages=162 |language=German}}</ref>
* The 1917 story "'Savonarola' Brown" by [[Max Beerbohm]] (published in ''[[Seven Men]]'') concerns an aspiring playwright, author of an unfinished, unintentionally absurd retelling of the life of Savonarola. (His four-act play took him nine years to write, is eighteen pages long, and features a romance between Savonarola and [[Lucrezia Borgia]], and also cameos by [[Dante Alighieri]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], and [[St. Francis of Assisi]].)
* [[William Van Wyck|Van Wyck, William]], ''Savonarola: A Biography in Dramatic Episodes'' (1926)<ref>{{cite book |title=Savonarola: A Biography in Dramatic Episodes |date=2010 |publisher=Kessinger Publishing, LLC |isbn=978-1-162-61143-3}}</ref>
* Hines and King, ''Fire of Vanity'' (play, 1930)
* [[Armand Salacrou|Salacrou, Armand]], ''Le terre est ronde'' (1938)
* The novel ''Kámen a bolest'' ("suffering and the stone") (1942), [[Karel Schulz]]'s historical novel about the life of Michelangelo, features Savonarola as an important character.
* Bacon, Wallace A., Savonarola: A Play in Nine Scenes (1950)
* ''[[The Agony and the Ecstasy (novel)|The Agony and the Ecstasy]]'' (1961), [[Irving Stone]]'s novelisation of Michelangelo's life, depicts the events in Florence from the Medici's point of view.
* The fourth segment of [[Walerian Borowczyk]]'s 1974 [[anthology film]], ''[[Immoral Tales (film)|Immoral Tales]]'', is set during the reign of Pope Alexander VI. A character called "Friar Hyeronimus Savonarola", played by Philippe Desboeuf, holds a sermon in which he publicly condemns the corruption of the church and the sexual depravity of the papacy. Borowczyk juxtaposes Savonarola's sermon with the Pope enjoying a [[threesome]] with his daughter, [[Lucrezia Borgia]], and his son, [[Cesare Borgia]]. Savonarola is arrested and publicly burned to death.
* In the 1976 film ''[[Network (1976 film)|Network]]'', the network programming executive played by Faye Dunaway refers to crusading reporter [[Howard Beale (Network)|Howard Beale]] as "a magnificent messianic figure, inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times, a [[Stripping (television)|strip]] Savonarola, Monday through Friday".
* In her novel ''[[The Passion of New Eve]]'' (1977), [[Angela Carter]] describes the preaching leader of an army of god-fearing [[child soldiers]] as a "precocious Savonarola".
* The novel ''[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro bibliography|The Palace]]'' (1978) by [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]] features Savonarola as the main antagonist of the vampire Saint Germain.
* The historical fantasy novel ''[[The Dragon Waiting]]'' (1984) by [[John M. Ford]] has Savonarola as one of the antagonists in chapter 3, set in the Medici court.
* The novel ''[[Sabbath's Theater]]'' (1995) by [[Philip Roth]] makes reference to Savonarola.
* The novel ''[[The Birth of Venus (novel)|The Birth of Venus]]'' (2003 ) by [[Sarah Dunant]] makes extensive references to Savonarola.
* In episode 7 (2003) of the manga-anime series ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'', two of the protagonists, Jean and Rico, visit Florence. There Savonarola is mentioned among other famous people who lived in the city, while he shares his surname with one of the series antagonists.
* The novel ''[[The Rule of Four]]'' (2004) by [[Ian Caldwell]] and [[Dustin Thomason]] makes extensive references to Savonarola.
* In the novel ''I, Mona Lisa'' (2006) (UK title ''[[Painting Mona Lisa]]'') by [[Jeanne Kalogridis]], he is given a negative slant, as the Medicis are portrayed as sympathetic and noble.
* The novel ''[[The Enchantress of Florence]]'' (2008) by [[Salman Rushdie]]
* The young adult novel ''[[The Smile (book)|The Smile]]'' (2008) by [[Donna Jo Napoli]] shows Savonarola as he was observed by a young Mona Lisa.
* In the novel ''[[Wolf Hall]]'' (2009) by [[Hilary Mantel]], the Bonfire of the Vanities is brought up in a story by the protagonist, Thomas Cromwell.
* Savonarola appears as a main assassination target in the videogame ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' (2009).
* In the novel, ''The Poet Prince'' (2010), [[Kathleen McGowan]] portrays him as an enemy of the Tuscan people in their pursuit of artistic fame during his reign.
* Savonarola's life story is explored in the novel ''Fanatics'' (2011) by [[William Bell (author)|William Bell]] and his ghost plays an important role in the story.
* In Showtime's ''[[The Borgias (2011 TV series)|The Borgias]]'', Savonarola is a recurring character in the two first seasons and is portrayed by [[Steven Berkoff]]. His burning takes place in the episode ''[[The Confession (The Borgias)|The Confession]]''.
* In the Netflix series ''[[Borgia (TV series)|Borgia]]'', Savonarola is portrayed by [[Iain Glen]] in season 2 (2013).
* Savonarola is a character in Canadian playwright [[Jordan Tannahill]]'s 2016 play ''Botticelli in the Fire''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tannahill |first1=Jordan |title=Botticelli in the Fire |date=2019 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=978-0-571-36016-1 |pages=112 |edition=Main}}</ref>
* In the Rai Fiction series ''[[Medici (TV series)|Medici]]'', Savonarola is portrayed by [[Francesco Montanari (actor)|Francesco Montanari]] in season 2 (2018).
* The historical fantasy and alternate history novel ''[[Lent (novel)|Lent]]'' (2019) by [[Jo Walton]] is a retelling of Savonarola's life.
* Three Fires (2023) by [[Denise Mina]] is a retelling of Savonarola's life.{{div col end}}