Note 245 — Chapter IV · POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE CHURCH. (continued 2)
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Landucci, p. 172.—Processo Autentico, p. 550.—Perrens, pp. 267-8.—Burlamacchi, pp. 566-7.—Villari, II. 188, 193; App. cxviii.-xxi.
It is part of the Savonarola legend that Savonarola threatened Ser Ceccone with death within a year if he did not remove certain interpolations from the confession, and that the prediction was verified, Ceccone dying within the time, unhouselled, and refusing in despair the consolations of religion (Burlamacchi, p. 575.—Violi ap. Villari, II. App. cxxvii.).
Ceccone performed the same office for the confession of Frà Domenico (Villari, II. App. Doc. XXVII.).