Commentary on the Pazzi Conspiracy

...was of service. Cavalcanti is wounded in the arm. Andreas remains unharmed. One could see the populace in an uproar; men, women, priests, and boys fleeing wherever their feet carried them. Everything was full of clamor and groaning. Yet, nothing could be heard of any clear speech. There were even those who believed the temple was collapsing. Bernardo Bandini, who had slaughtered Giuliano, not content with his own part, makes for Lorenzo. He had just retreated with a few men into the sacristy. Bernardo, because of Francesco Nori—a prudent man and the prefect of the trade of the Medici family—having driven his sword into his chest with one wound, kills him. His corpse, still breathing, was carried into the sacristy where Lorenzo had retreated. Then I, who had betaken myself to the same place, and some others, closed the bronze doors. Thus, we repelled the danger that was threatening from Bandini. While we guarded the doors, others inside were trembling, anxious about Lorenzo's wound. There, Antonio Rodulfus, the son of Jacopo, an honest young man, was sucking the wound of Lorenzo; he himself took no thought for his own safety, but kept asking continuously: "Is Giuliano well?" Meanwhile, indignant, he threatened and complained that his own life was being sought by those from whom it was least right. Immediately, a group of young men who were faithful to the Medici house crowded to the doors of the sacristy with weapons. They shouted with one voice that they were friends and supporters. "Let Lorenzo come out, let him come out, before the opposing faction gathers strength." We, trembling inside, were doubting whether they were enemies or friends. Yet we asked if Giuliano was safe. They answered nothing to that. Then Sigismundus Stufa, an excellent young man who had been with Lorenzo from that time...