4155 x 6232 px | 35,2 x 52,8 cm | 13,9 x 20,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
septembre 2022
Lieu:
Florence Italy
Informations supplémentaires:
the great bell of the church’s bell tower: called “La Piagnona, ” the weeper—after the followers of Savonarola, those piagnone who passionately wept, electrified by his hell-vivifying sermons. When the authorities came to haul Savonarola away, supporters rang the bell to muster aid. To no avail. After Savonarola was hanged and burnt in the Piazza della Signoria, authorities later had the bell itself dragged through the streets and whipped by the public executioner. It lives now on the first floor of the Museum complex, in a room off the small cloister, a massive bronze thing festooned with Medici heraldry, an enormous wooden beam still threaded through its top—the support it no longer needs. When a bellmaster checked it in recent years, he found it had retained its perfect pitches, still capable of sounding reverberantly impressive tones.
