" Francesco de Pazzi thereupon stabbed him with such frenzy, plunging the blade time and again into the unresisting body, that he even drove the point of the dagger through his own tigh. Giuliano fell to his knees while two assailants continued to rain savage blows upon him, slashing and stabbing until the corpse was rent by nineteen wounds.
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall "

― Christopher Hibbert