The Pazzi faction in the city, meanwhile, hoping that all had gone well in the Palazzo Vecchio, as well as in the cathedral (as they thought), were running through the streets calling "Viva la Liberta!" to be met with counter cries of "Palle! palle!"-- the palle being the balls on the Medici escutcheon, still to be seen all over Florence and its vicinity and on every curtain in the Uffizi.
The truth gradually spreading, the city then rose for the Medici and justice began to be done.

The Archbishop was handed at once, just as he was, from a window of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Francesco de' Pazzi, who had got home to bed, was dragged to the Palazzo and hanged too.

The mob meanwhile were not idle, and most of the Pazzi were accounted for, together with many followers--although Lorenzo publicly implored them to be merciful.

Poliziano, the scholar-poet and friend of Lorenzo, has left a vivid account of the day.