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Savonarola|sævɒnəˈrəʊlə|
[The name of the Dominican monk, Girolamo Savonarola (1452–98), famed for his fierce opposition to ecclesiastical, moral, and political licence and corruption.]
1. Used allusively to designate someone considered puritanical in attitude, esp. in regard to the arts.
1916G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion p. xv, They save society from ruin by criminals and conquerors as well as by Savonarolas and Knipperdollings. 1963W. K. Rose in Lett. Wyndham Lewis (1963) iii. 122 This might change abruptly to an angry, mind-scourging Savonarola. 1980R. Ludlum Bourne Identity xvi. 252 He was a Savonarola, but without religious principles, only his own odd morality.
2. In full, Savonarola chair. A kind of folding chair typical of the Italian Renaissance (see quots.).
1918G. L. Hunter Italian Furnit. & Interiors (1920) I. p. iv, Of Italian chairs there are more types than were until recently known to exist:..folding ‘X’ chairs of the type sometimes called ‘Savonarola’, wonderful ‘Dante’ chairs. 1927Eberlein & Ramsdell Pract. Bk. Ital., Span. & Port. Furnit. 71 The really correct name for both the so-called ‘sedia Dantesca’ and the so-called ‘sedia Savonarola’ is sedia del campo or field chair... Being readily portable when folded up, they were carried on campaigns... These chairs were likewise commonly used by the Florentines for resting, dining, writing and reading... The finest of the ‘Savonarola’ chairs were made of walnut. 1969Observer 11 May (Colour Suppl.) 17 Savonarola's folding chair..gave its name to this characteristic piece of Renaissance furniture—a savonarola. 1972Country Life 23 Mar. 723/1 Knowledgeable inspection of the oak will reveal these shams which have been sold under such names as Dante and Savonarola chairs.
Hence Savonaˈrolan a.
1960K. Clark Looking at Pictures 184 Savonarolan puritanism has made Botticelli renounce the physical beauty which he still thought appropriate to the blessed spirits in his Dante drawings. 1976Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Mar. 167/2 Michelangelo himself, of course, had a strong strain of Savonarolan puritanism in his background. |