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The best, and the worst, that can be said of the tempestuous friar is that he loved God so passionately that he had very little love left for man.
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Anonymous book reviewer, in "Books: The Sword of God" in TIME (17 August 1959), a review of The Life Of Girolamo Savonarola by Roberto Ridolfi, translated by Cecil Grayson

 

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