The center of the square is occupied by a great circular pile of billets and fagots, to which a wooden bridge of scaffolding leads from the left angle of the Polazzo.

From the middle of the pile rises a pole, to which the bodies of the friars in their white clothes are suspended.

Sta Maria del Fiore, the Badia tower, and the distant hills above Fiesole complete a scene which is no doubt accurate in detail.
Thus died Savonarola: and immediately he became a saint.

His sermons and other works were universally distributed.

Medals in his honor were struck.