literally everywhere i have gone in this city i have seen references to a preacher called savonarola, clearly a Known Entity, and yet to me wholly unknown

i gathered from context he was A Thing around the same time a lot of the other figures of the renaissance were doing their thing, and that generally he was against whatever the medicis were up to in general, but the only place that deigned to give me any actual information about the guy himself and what exactly it was people were following him for was a temporary exhibit in the pitti palace’s modern art museum about florence’s jewish ghetto and its relationship to the medici family

anyway apparently his Thing was Wanting People To Be Protestant, except protestantism didn’t exist yet. Tragic 😔