 Infelix ego

Infelix ego ("Alas, wretch that I am") is a Latin meditation on the "Miserere", Psalm 51 (Psalm 50 in Septuagint numbering), composed in prison by Girolamo Savonarola by 8 May 1498, after he was tortured on the rack, and two weeks before he was burned at the stake in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence on 23 May 1498.The prison authorities had spared only his right arm during the preliminary torture, so that Savonarola would be able to sign his confession