575. The Medici: The Bonfire of the Vanities (Part 4)

All of a sudden I saw the sword that quivered over Italy turn its point downward, and like a great storm go among them and scourge them all. The quivering sword, I tell you, Florence, belongs to the King of France. That sword will be felt through Italy. Remember when I said three years ago now that a wind will come, as in that figure of Elijah, and that this wind would shake the mountain. This wind has come

and it has shaken the princes of Italy. See now he has come, just as I said. Tell me, Florence, where now are your fortresses? Where now are your strongholds?? See now he has come, and still you do not believe.

So, Dominic, that was Gerolamo Savonarola, addressing his flock in the Duomo at the cathedral at Florence on the thirteenth of january, fourteen ninety five, and instantly recognizable from his hoarse and rasping accent there, his voice. dramatically and authentically recreated here on the rest of his history in our ongoing series on the Medici. And Dominic Lorenzo the Magnificent is dead. Savonarola is on the scene and that that I just read out, I think beautifully, um, is perhaps the most ferocious and memorable of all his many apocalyptic sermons and he had it printed and distributed across the city.

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