[Footnote 114: Jerome Savonarola--was a jacobin friar, and had foretold
that the king of France would invade Italy, to punish the inhabitants
for their vices, and their rulers for their tyranny. He afterward
preached against king Charles. He was burnt at Florence by the
intrigues of pope Alexander VI. at the instigation of the Venetians and
the duke of Milan, against whose vices he had publicly declaimed.
The death of Jerome Savonarola was a disgrace to the times. Florence
supported him as an inspired person. His piety, his austere life, and
his edifying sermons gained him the esteem and admiration of all the
Florentines. There may, perhaps, have been some imprudence in his
sermons, which persons of piety will attribute to zeal; and the pope
was too severe in having him burnt for the slight censure he had passed
on his conduct, which was notoriously infamous.]