Having now looked him up, and skimmed the (quite large) Wikipedia article on the gentleman in question, I can see why Dojyomaru with his Machiavelli, ahh, fetish, would know about and reference Girolamo Savonarola as someone to NOT emulate when it comes to religious influence on state power… #RealistHero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola - Wikipedia

OK, OK, TECHNICALLY it’s an Author Appeal to Machiavelli… https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorAppeal #RealistHero
Author Appeal - TV Tropes

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