[A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Florence CHAPTER XVIII 10/37
His body was still free from corruption in 1559, when it was translated to the chapel in S.Marco prepared for it by the Salviati. But perhaps the good Antonino's finest work was the foundation of a philanthropic society of Florentines which still carries on its good work.
Antonino's sympathy lay in particular with the reduced families of Florence, and it was to bring help secretly to them--too proud to beg--that he called for volunteers.
The society was known in the city as the Buonuomini (good men) of S.Martino, the little church close to Dante's house, behind the Badia: S.Martin being famous among saints for his impulsive yet wise generosity with his cloak. The other and most famous prior of S.Marco was Savonarola.
Girolamo Savonarola was born of noble family at Ferrara in 1452, and after a profound education, in which he concentrated chiefly upon religion and philosophy, he entered the Dominican order at the age of twenty-two.
He first came to S.Marco at the age of thirty and preached there in Lent in 1482, but without attracting much notice.
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