[A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Florence CHAPTER II 10/20
With his own eyes he saw the hanging Salviati, in his last throes, bite the hanging Francesco de Pazzi.
Old Jacopo succeeded in escaping, but not for long, and a day or so later he too was hanged.
Bandini got as far as Constantinople, but was brought back in chains and hanged.
The two priests hid in the Benedictine abbey in the city and for a while evaded search, but being found they were torn to pieces by the crowd.
Montesecco, having confessed, was beheaded in the courtyard of the Bargello. The hanging of the chief conspirators was kept in the minds of the short-memoried Florentines by a representation outside the Palazzo Vecchio, by none other than the wistful, spiritual Botticelli; while three effigies, life size, of Lorenzo--one of them with his bandaged neck--were made by Verrocchio in coloured wax and set up in places where prayers might be offered.
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