History has recast the 15th century Florentine monk Girolamo Savonarola as a rabble-rousing zealot lording over the "bonfire of the vanities"; yet this so-called ____________ – mainly because he directed his censure at the church – was a crusader for austerity and thus a check on a papacy that had run a course of profligacy. A. ascetic B. nonpartisan C. heretic D. martyr E. libertine