[235] Landucci, p. 166.—Villari, II. App. pp. lviii.-lxii.
[236] Villari, II. 129, 132-5; App. pp. lxviii.-lxxi., clxxi.—Baluz. et Mansi I. 584-5.—Perrens. pp. 373-5.—Burlamacchi, p. 551.—In his confession of May 21, Savonarola stated that the idea of the council had only suggested itself to him three months previously (Villari, II. App. cxcii.).
[237] Landucci, p. 113.—Chron. Glassberger ann. 1482.—Raynald. ann. 1492, No. 25.—Pulgar, Cronica de los Reyes Catolicos, II. civ.—Comba, La Riforma in Italia, I. 491.—Nardi, Lib. II. (p. 79).
The contemporary Glassberger says of Andreas of Krain’s attempt, “Nisi enim auctoritas imperatoris intervenisset maximum in ecclesia schisma subortum fuisset. Omnes enim æmuli domini papæ ad domini imperatoris consensum respiciebant pro concilio celebrando.” A year’s imprisonment in chains exhausted the resolution of Andreas, who executed a solemn recantation of his invectives against the Holy See, This was sent with a petition for pardon to Sixtus IV., who granted it, but before the return of the messengers the unhappy reformer hanged himself in his cell (ubi sup. ann. 1483).
[238] Burlamacchi, p. 559.—Landucci, pp. 166-7.—Processo Autentico, pp. 535-7.—Villari, II. App. lxxi. sqq.
[239] Landucci, pp. 167-8.—Processo Autentico, pp. 536-8.—Villari, II. App. xci.-xciii.
[240] Perrens, pp. 379-81.—Burlamacchi, pp. 560, 562.—Landucci, p. 168.—Processo Autentico, pp. 540-1.
[241] Landucci, pp. 168-9.—Processo Autentico, p. 542.—Burlamacchi, p. 563.—Villari, II. App. pp. lxxv.-lxxx., lxxxiii.-xc.—Guicciardini, Lib. III. c. 6.
The good Florentines did not fail to point out that the sudden death of Charles VIII., on this same April 7, was a visitation upon him for having abandoned Savonarola and the republic.—Nardi, Lib. II. p. 80.
[242] Landucci, p. 170.—Processo Autentico, pp. 534, 543.—Burlamacchi, p. 564.