A row of well-worn Savanarola chairs awaits weary museum visitors at the Bargello.
Savanarola was the Dominican monk, religious zealot, and priest in Florence, whose "hellfire and brimstone" sermons
chastised the wealthy Florentines for their extravagances.
Savanarola's influence resulted in the original "bonfire of the vanities" in Pza. Signoria in 1497,
where countless works of "immoral art", books, and other material luxuries were put to the flames.
His vehement sermons against the moral corruption of some of the clergy at the time ended with his execution by hanging and burning in 1498.

These chairs seen here are typical of the kind seen in his monk's cell at San Marco in Florence.