on 7 june, arcangeli accompanied winckelmann to buy a pencil and a penknife. he then returned the same day buy alone in the same shop a knife, then in another shop, a rope. the next day, 8 june 1768, he visited winckelmann in the room after dinner as he was used to. it was there that he threw himself on the intellectual to strangle him: winckelmann pushed him away and arcangeli pulled out his knife, they fought. in his testimony, arcangeli said that he stabbed winckelmann not only on the chest, but also "lower down", which is not without sexual connotations. arcangeli then fled, leaving winckelmann screaming down the stairs: "look what he did to me! ". winckelmann spent his last hours doing his will and forgave arcangeli. he was buried the next day at the cemetery of the trieste cathedral. arcangeli was arrested, however, and sentenced to death on 18 july to be beaten alive on a wheel on the square in front of the inn. the sentence was executed two days later, on 20 july.