“I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.”

— Girolamo Savonarola

As quoted in Books: The Sword of God" in TIME (17 August 1959) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,937912,00.html, a review of The Life Of Girolamo Savonarola by Roberto Ridolfi, translated by Cecil Grayson

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Italian Dominican friar and preacher 1452–1498

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