. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. all Piero de Medicis What other proof can be needed that thewhole question was one of political, not of religious strife?The Ambassador Becchi did not remain idle while this wasgoing on ; but profiting by the favour and assistance ofcertaìn of the Cardinals, went round to all the others,trying to win them over to the side of the Republic, andendeavouring to gain time, since nothing else could bedone at the Meanwhile Savonarola, his sermons being ended, hadgone after Easter to Prato, where he had preached on the 1 In a letter of t
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. all Piero de Medicis What other proof can be needed that thewhole question was one of political, not of religious strife?The Ambassador Becchi did not remain idle while this wasgoing on ; but profiting by the favour and assistance ofcertaìn of the Cardinals, went round to all the others,trying to win them over to the side of the Republic, andendeavouring to gain time, since nothing else could bedone at the Meanwhile Savonarola, his sermons being ended, hadgone after Easter to Prato, where he had preached on the 1 In a letter of the 24th of March, 1496, addressed to the Ten, Pandol-fini gives a minute report of this dialogue. Vide the Documentipublished by Padre Marchese in the Archivio Storico Italiano, pp. 3 This at least is the only accusation mentioned by the Ambassador,Messer Riccardo Becchi, who gives a full account of this consistory in hisletter of the 5th of April, 1496. Documenti published by Padre Mar-chese, Ibidem, p. 152. * Vide the same M FIC IN - SA VONAROLAS SUCCESS IN PR A TO. 445 prophet Joel from the steps of the chapter house, andafterwards delivered, in the refectory, a sermon on faithbefore all the Professors of the Pisan University, which,by reason of the war, had been transferred to this success was immense ; great numbers of people hadjourneyed from Florence to hear him, and tf all the land orPrato, says an old biographer, seemed turned into achurch/1 Several learned doctors were converted on thisoccasion. A certain Messer Olivieri, a canon of theDuomo of Florence and a skilled Aristotelian, said to hispupils : Let us cast away our books and follow this man,for we are scarcely worthy of him. Marsilio Ficino,then considered the first philosopher of his age, expressedhimself almost ecstatically regarding the excellence ofSavonarolas doctrines. It was then, too, that the famousNiccolò Schomberg was converted, who afterwards assumedthe robe of St. Mar
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