Became religiou Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

AP Euro: Important People Latest Updated 2022 Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) Dominican friar, attacked government of Florence (Lorenzo de' Medici), corruption of Pope Alexander VI, became religious leader of Florence, eventually excommunicated and executed by pope, shows that common people did not share worldly outlook of elite Petrarch (1304-1374) thought he was living at the start of a new era, new age of intellectual achievement, father of humanism Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) humanist, defe...