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To these parties must be added the red republicans, or Arrabbiati a name originally reserved for the worst adherents of the Medici, but now applied to fanatics of Jacobin complexion and the Libertines, who only cared for such a form of government as should permit them to indulge their passions.
The Palleschi desired to restore the Medici at any price some of them frankly wishing for a principality, others trusting that the old quasi-republican government might still be reinstated. The Red Republicans, styled Libertini and Arrabbiati, clung together in blind hatred of the Medicean party; but they had no further policy to guide them.
But it was only the sacred majesty of the host that had protected this man, who was indeed from this moment regarded as a false prophet: the crowd allowed Savonarola to return to his convent, but they regretted the necessity, so excited were they by the Arrabbiati party, who had always denounced him as a liar and a hypocrite.
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