ABSTRACT
While the Arno was still carrying away the remains of the pyre which had consumed the body of Savonarola, a revolution which had begun immediately after the Friar’s arrest, had quietly been accomplished in the Florentine Republic. The ‘piagnone’ magistrates had all been dismissed from their offices and replaced by men of the opposing faction. The first to be deposed were the Ten (Dieci), the Eight (Otto di guardia), and the Councils (Collegi della Signoria); then right down to the lowest officials of the commune, they had to give up their jobs to men who had had nothing to do with the Friar unless it were to oppose or harm him; and the more openly they had done so, the better for them. 1
