Alionola

• Savonarola, the "other (alio) nola": Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), a Dominican friar (like Bruno) who was sort of the anti-Bruno. Savonarola was infamous for his "bonfires of the vanities" in which he burned art, books (especially the works of Boccaccio), cosmetics, anything that could lead to sin. In the end he was summoned to Rome, tried, convicted, hanged and burned with two of his compatriots, thereby suffering a fate similar to Bruno. Savonarola made various predictions, of a more earthly nature than Bruno. One gets the sense that Savonarola would have burned Bruno's books, if not Bruno himself.