John crying to a generation of vipers, 'Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!' was not more weighty with the mission of authentic inspiration.
[1] Savonarola's whole view of the situation and of the perils of Italy was that of a prophet.

He saw more clearly than other people what was inevitable.

But his disciples and the vulgar believed implicitly in his prophetic gift in the narrower sense, that is, in his power to predict events, such as the deaths of Lorenzo and the King of Naples, the punishment of Charles VIII, in the loss of the dauphin, etc.

Pico says: 'Savonarola could read the future as clearly as one sees the whole is greater than the part.' And there is no doubt that, as time went on, Savonarola came to believe himself that he possessed this faculty.

After his trial and execution a very uncomfortable sense of doubt remained upon the minds of those who had been witnesses of his life-drama.