San Giovanni in Firenze in Città Metropolitana di Firenze, Tuscany, Italy — Southern and Western Europe (Mediterranean)

Site of the Execution of Girolamo Savonarola

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, July 26, 2025

1. Site of the Execution of Girolamo Savonarola Marker

Inscription.
Qui dove con i suoi confratelli Fra Domenico Buonvicini e Fra Silvestro Maruffi il XXIII maggio del MCCCCXCVIII per iniqua sentenza fu impiccato ed arso Fra Girolamo Savonarola dopo quattro secoli fu collocata questa memoria

[English translation of Italian text:]
Here, where Fr. Girolamo Savonarola was hanged and burned four centuries ago with his brothers Fr. Domenico Buonvicini and Fr. Silvestro Maruffi on May 23, 1498, due to an unjust sentence, this memorial was placed.

Erected 1898.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Notable Events • Religion & Religious Structures. A significant historical date for this entry is May 23, 1498.

Location. 43° 46.179′ N, 11° 15.346′ E. Marker is in Firenze, Toscana (Tuscany), in Città Metropolitana di Firenze. It is in San Giovanni. It is on Piazza della Signoria. The marker is in Piazza della Signoria, a short distance west of the Fountain of Neptune. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Firenze, Toscana 50122, Italy. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in Europe,

the European Union,

the Schengen Area,

a coastal Mediterranean country,

and the Western World.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Byzantine Empire,

the Roman Empire,

and specifically the Holy Roman Empire.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Firenze — Piazza della Signoria / Florence — Piazza della Signoria (within shouting distance of this marker); The Liberation of Florence, 1944 (within shouting distance of this marker); Ex Chiesa di San Pier Scheraggio / Former Church of San Pier Scheraggio

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(about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line); Vasco Pratolini (about 120 meters away); John Brampton Philpot (about 120 meters away); Giuseppe e Vittorio Jacquier (about 120 meters away); “Il Porcellino” / “The Metal Pig” (about 120 meters away); Chiesa e Museo di Orsanmichele / The Church and Museum of Orsanmichele (about 120 meters away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Firenze.

Regarding Site of the Execution of Girolamo Savonarola. Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar who, after emerging as a leading figure for his strict moralism and his prophesies of disaster, became the de facto leader of a republic in Florence after the Medicis were forced from the city in 1494. After a falling-out with the Pope and later the people of Florence, Savonarola was executed at this spot in the Piazza della Signoria in 1498.

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1. Execution of Girolamo Savonarola.

Excerpt: "His opponents called Savonarola and his followers ‘Snivellers’ and he grimly disapproved of jokes and frivolity, of poetry and inns, of sex (especially the homosexual variety),
Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, July 26, 2025

2. Site of Savonarola's execution
The Fountain of Neptune, commissioned in 1559 by Cosimo I, is in the rear of this photo. Savonarola had been hanged and burned at this spot about 60 years earlier.
of gambling, of fine clothes and jewellery and luxury of every sort. He denounced the works of Boccaccio, nude paintings, pictures of pagan deities and the whole humanistic culture of the Italian Renaissance. He called for laws against vice and laxity. He put an end to the carnivals and festivals the Florentines traditionally enjoyed, substituting religious festivals instead, and employed street urchins as a junior gestapo to sniff out luxurious and suspect items. In the famous ‘bonfire of the vanities’ in 1497 he had gaming tables and packs of cards, carnival masks, mirrors, ornaments, nude statues and supposedly indecent books and pictures burned in the street. The friar also disapproved of profiteering financiers and businessmen."

(Submitted on August 23, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)

2. Savonarola bio. (Submitted on August 23, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)

Piazza della Signoria image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, July 26, 2025

3. Piazza della Signoria

The execution of Savonarola in Piazza della Signoria image. Click for full size.

Painting by Filippo Dolciati; Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, circa 1498

4. The execution of Savonarola in Piazza della Signoria

Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) image. Click for full size.

Painting by Fra Bartolomeo; Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, circa 1498

5. Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)

Credits. This page was last revised on August 23, 2025. It was originally submitted on August 22, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 138 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on August 22, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.