Lorenzo the Magnificent vs. Girolamo Savonarola

[Wikipedia delenda est]

I was inspired to make this poll after seeing the Louis XVI vs. Napoleon thread in Individual Politics. On this one, I'm with Savonarola. Although he definitely went too far with the Bonfire of the Vanities, he made Florence a much more democratic society and genuinely tried to help the city's poor and downtrodden, unlike the corrupt and greedy Medici.

[The Mikado]

This question boils down to "If I lived in Florence at the time, would I incarnate as a rich noble or as a poor townsperson?"

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

i hate to invoke Godwin's Law so soon in a thread, but saying Savonarola would have been great except for the Bonfires of Vanities is kind of like saying Hitler would have great if it weren't for the Holocaust.  Savonrola was a megalomaniacal narcissist who worst of all was incompetent.  i suspect that were he alive today and living in America, Trump would replace Charles VIII of France as the new Cyrus in his theology.

[Kingpoleon]

Not the one who used violent thugs and mob justice to establish a theocracy.