Throughout this long contention of so many varying thoughts, he never questions the morality of the act for which he is condemned to die.

Luca, however, has his doubts, and privately asks the confessor whether S.Thomas Aquinas had not discountenanced tyrannicide.
'Yes,' answers the monk, 'in case the people have elected their own tyrant, but not when he has imposed himself on them by force.' This casuistical answer satisfies Luca that his friend may reasonably be held blameless.

After confessing, Boscoli received the sacrament with great piety, and died bravely.

The confessor told Luca, weeping, that he was sure the young man's soul had gone straight to Paradise, and that he might be reckoned a real martyr.

His head after death was like that of an angel; and Luca was, we know, a connoisseur in angels' heads.