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Updated: May 18, 2025
The Women might possibly have carried this Gothick Building much higher, had not a famous Monk, Thomas Conecte by Name, attacked it with great Zeal and Resolution. He so warmed and animated the People against this monstrous Ornament, that it lay under a kind of Persecution; and whenever it appeared in publick was pelted down by the Rabble, who flung Stones at the Persons that wore it.
There are many points of contact between Charles the Bold and Lorenzo the Magnificent, and no figure comes closer to Savonarola than that of the Carthusian, Thomas Conecte, who stirred public feeling to such a pitch that the people crowding to listen to his fiery speeches, in market-places, threw into the braziers burning before his platform all the instruments of their worldly life chessboards, cards, dice, skittles, silks and jewels.
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