The Ordeal of Savonarola

The Atza del Azineria, a great open square in the heart of the city. A tense, excited, throng, bordering on hysteria is gathered here this 7th of April, 1498, demanding a miracle of proud uralimos Savanarola.

He's celebrated a friar who rules this city-state from his pulpit in St. Mark's. Unless Savanarola can prove that he is divinely inspired, the people will overthrow him, try the Republic, he powered it five years ago, and return to power the Medici family of merchant princes that Cevanarola deposed. This great crowd here in the Biazza del Acigioria has been

gathering since early this morning to see Cevanarola perform his miracle. May he be the servant of Cevanarola. The people of Florence demand a miracle of Cevanarola. CBS takes you back 451 years to the bizarre that climax the struggle for power between the great Christian apartula popular government and his bitter enemies, the Medici, symbol of medieval autocracy.

All things are as they were then, except for one thing. When CBS is there, you are there. You are there, produced and directed by Robert Louis Cheyenne, is based on authentic historical fact and quotation. And now, the before this great throng of the emotionally charged foreign tea ever since Savannah Rola a Dominican monk at the request of the

seniori the governing council of Florence took over the reigns of government the exiled Medici through their supporters in the city have attacked him twice they attempted to assassinate him the people at first were intensely loyal to the of the friar.

Recently, however, the Vatican excommunicated Savannarola placed an interdict upon Florence. This, too, together with the economic pressures applied by the friars' enemies at home and abroad, have stretched the people's loyalty to the breaking point.