Poliziano, who was with Lorenzo during his last illness, does not mention them in his letter to Jacobus Antiquarius (xv.Kal.Jun.

1492).
But Burlmacchi, Pico, Barsanti, Razzi, and others of the Frate's party, agree in the story.

What Poliziano wrote was that Savonarola confessed Lorenzo and retired without volunteering the blessing.

Razzi says the interview between Savonarola and Lorenzo took place without witnesses; Pico and Burlamacchi relate the event as they heard of it from the lips of Savonarola.

We have therefore to judge between the testimony of Poliziano, who held no communication with the friar, and the veracity of several narrators, biassed indeed by hostility toward the Medici, but in direct intercourse with the only man who could tell the exact truth of what passed--the confessor, Savonarola, who had been alone with Lorenzo.