- Savonarola, Girolamo Savonarola - Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498)
--1 is a kind of Dominican, Black Friar, Blackfriar, friar preacher; reformer, reformist, crusader, meliorist