How did Martin Luther respond to Exsurge Domine in Wittenberg?

Upon receiving the papal bull Exsurge Domine, which demanded he recant his teachings within 60 days, Martin Luther initially dismissed reports of the document as a malicious rumor. Once the reality of his condemnation became clear, he responded with defiance, authoring a tract titled Against the Execrable Bull of the Antichrist.1

When the 60-day period expired on December 10, 1520, Luther took a dramatic public stand in Wittenberg. He cancelled his classes and marched to a bonfire prepared by his students outside one of the city gates. There, he threw a copy of the bull into the flames, declaring the act a trifle and asserting that the pope and the papal see should be burned. This act of open rebellion against the authority of Pope Leo X directly preceded his formal excommunication by the church in January 1521.123