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Savonarola

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Savonarola

Opera by Charles Villiers Stanford (libretto by Gilbert Abott à Beckett). It was first produced in Germany (translated by Ernst Frank)in Hamburg on 18 April 1884.


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If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long--as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.
To one who loves the Florence of Dante and Savonarola there is something portentous in such desecration-- portentous and humiliating.
 
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