One by one he enumerated the bloodshed, the ruin of cities, the trampling down of provinces, the passage of armies, the desolating wars that were about to fall on Italy.[1] You may read pages of his sermons which seem like vivid narratives of what afterwards took place in the sack of Prato, in the storming of Brescia, in the battle of the Ronco, in the cavern-massacre of Vicenza.

No wonder that he stirred his audience to their center.

The hell within them was revealed.

The coming doom above them was made manifest.

Ezekiel and Jeremiah were not more prophetic.