Savonarola took the Ark of Noah for his theme.

The deluge was at hand; he bade his hearers enter the ship of refuge before the terrible and mighty nation came: 'O Italy! O Rome! I give you over to the hands of a people who will wipe you out from among the nations! I see them descending like lions.

Pestilence comes marching hand in hand with war.

The deaths will be so many that the buriers shall go through the streets crying out: Who hath dead, who hath dead?
and one will bring his father, and another his son.

O Rome! I cry again to you to repent, Repent, Venice! Milan, repent!' 'The prophets a hundred years ago proclaimed to you the flagellation of the Church.