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1001 10| the picture since it was painted has destroyed the original
1002 2 | type, except for the ivory pallor of her complexion. By this
1003 1 | Rome and visit the villa Pamphili, no doubt, after having
1004 6 | preliminaries excited, a pang of physical pain was added
1005 3 | which seemed to come from Paradise. When she mentioned this
1006 8 | thunderstruck: she seemed paralysed and speechless; then she
1007 5 | terrace was unfenced by any parapet, they threw it into an elder
1008 7 | capable of killing their parents, and among Roman lawyers
1009 8 | This fit led to a terrible paroxysm, after which the exhaustion
1010 4 | gulf separated them. They parted bathed in tears, promising
1011 10| ground below; the dress being partially torn from the body, which
1012 8 | age, who, guiltless of any participation in the crime, yet found
1013 7 | horrified on reading the particulars of the crime contained in
1014 2 | to prosecute the guilty parties. The good Gregory had his
1015 4 | to come down before the passage of the travellers, who arrived
1016 7 | producing among the audience, passionately interrupted him. ~"Are there
1017 7 | to remove her from the paternal roof and place her in a
1018 4 | length Francesco, losing patience, told this obstinate lover
1019 7 | VIII then showed himself as patient as he had previously been
1020 4 | The bandits, after having patrolled the road in vain, came to
1021 10| under the statue of St. Paul, at the foot of the bridge,
1022 1 | which you will find the Pauline fountain. Having passed
1023 3 | accordingly borne to the paupers' graves which he had caused
1024 10| Cenci, with the condition of paying within the year two thousand
1025 6 | executioner, either like the pendulum of a clock, or by elevating
1026 4 | expressed by a musical and penetrating voice, and the reader may
1027 9 | followed the last row of penitents in single file, veiled to
1028 3 | but as their independent pensions enabled them to keep out
1029 7 | Lucrezia Petroni. The judges, perceiving the obstinacy of Beatrice,
1030 9 | him so as more readily to perform this office, Bernardo came
1031 3 | illuminated, and sensuous with perfumes; beautiful youths and girls,
1032 1 | succeeded the Athens of Pericles. ~Leo X succeeded Julius
1033 1 | said he, "that God has permitted this schism and this persecution
1034 9 | to the executioner as a perquisite after the execution of the
1035 1 | permitted this schism and this persecution on account of the sins of
1036 1 | Giovanni Sforza, lord of Pesaro, whom she left owing to
1037 7 | Beatrice to His Holiness, petitioning him, as her sister had done,
1038 10| portrait is that of Lucrezia Petrani the small head indicates
1039 4 | safe and sound at Rocco Petreila. The bandits, after having
1040 6 | preliminaries excited, a pang of physical pain was added by tightening
1041 2 | morning after his death his physician's door was found decorated
1042 5 | his head. The throat was pierced in the same way with the
1043 1 | having sought under its tall pines and along its canals the
1044 1 | Scourged, by Sebastian del Piombo, and in the third chapel
1045 8 | to charities, with other pious legacies. Having settled
1046 9 | this had to be raised by placing a billet of wood underneath
1047 6 | nature of this horrid torture plain to our readers, we give
1048 4 | the sbirri, the following plan of action was decided upon. ~
1049 6 | moment in timid or irresolute plans, but as it happened that
1050 7 | argument of Farinacci, who pleaded that Francesco Cenci had
1051 7 | His Holiness. ~The first pleader was Nicolo degli Angeli,
1052 2 | thin, and wore habitually a pleasant smile, except when his eye
1053 3 | were the ministers to the pleasures of Francesco, who, rich
1054 9 | by Beatrice to Marzio to pledge him to the murder of her
1055 2 | months against their wretched plight, the lads were obliged to
1056 4 | Thus all suspicions of a plot would be avoided, and the
1057 1 | made every arrangement a plotter could make to be King of
1058 9 | match her corsage, with a plush hood, which fell over her
1059 4 | added blue eyes swimming in poetic sentiment; his hair was
1060 2 | struck, and always with the point, never the hilt. In most
1061 1 | a work by Vasari; then, pointing out in melancholy tones
1062 1 | him. As both were skilful politicians, experienced courtiers,
1063 9 | from a large cross beam, a ponderous axe, which, guided by two
1064 6 | conscientiously did his work with a poniard, but Marzio's man unfortunately
1065 1 | Alexander VI ascended the pontifical throne. Son of a sister
1066 2 | forest of San Germano and the Pontine marshes heedless of brigands,
1067 8 | distributed in marriage portions to fifty poor girls. She
1068 10| Giacomo and Bernardo, as no portraits of them are in existence,
1069 5 | great nails, such as those portrayed in pictures of the Crucifixion;
1070 4 | criminal resolution, and possibly the tragical incident might
1071 5 | and having swallowed the potion, soon fell into a deep sleep. ~
1072 7 | ordered a weight of fifty pounds to be fastened to her feet.
1073 4 | children, to languish in poverty. Guerra's house was selected
1074 6 | ordinary torture, was put in practice when the crime appeared
1075 3 | latter by a bungling medical practitioner whose name is unknown; the
1076 3 | Francesco threatened and prayed, but threats and prayers
1077 3 | But Francesco took every precaution against his second daughter,
1078 8 | provisions with much calmness and precision. Its last clause desired
1079 4 | consequently ecclesiastics were not precluded from marriage. It was therefore
1080 2 | V. Under this venerable prelate, who occupied himself much
1081 1 | especially those of priests and prelates of the Church; for we know
1082 6 | increase the terror these preliminaries excited, a pang of physical
1083 9 | been already bared, as a preliminary to his decapitation. People
1084 8 | Savella and Tordinona. The preparations for the closing scene of
1085 8 | judged by man, they must now prepare to appear before God. ~Beatrice
1086 7 | immediately busied themselves in preparing pleadings for so emotional
1087 10| may be said to have been present at this tragedy, carriages,
1088 3 | the same apparition again presented itself, only, on this occasion,
1089 6 | adding an extract of the presiding judge's report of the case,
1090 5 | it possible that you, who pretend to be brave and strong,
1091 4 | raise the sum; but, under pretext of inability to do so, they
1092 5 | youngest but one. Nothing prevented them from escaping to Venice
1093 7 | himself as patient as he had previously been hasty, and heard the
1094 10| of a Roman matron in her pride; her high complexion, graceful
1095 1 | and especially those of priests and prelates of the Church;
1096 7 | so that many persons of princely rank petitioned the Holy
1097 10| vivid impression of the principal actors in this tragedy than
1098 8 | had gathered at the two prisons of Corte Savella and Tordinona.
1099 8 | they should be put to death privately and in the prison, and that
1100 1 | you have already in all probability admired this masterpiece
1101 6 | crime appeared reasonably probable but was not absolutely proved. ~
1102 2 | 1523, Giulio di Medici was proclaimed pope under the name of Clement
1103 2 | crimes, he only succeeded in procuring his liberation by the payment
1104 7 | alarmed at the effect he was producing among the audience, passionately
1105 2 | subjected to the most frightful profanations, that Francesco Cenci was
1106 2 | entered a church except to profane its sanctity. It was said
1107 2 | Cenci's work been extremely profitable, he would have refused to
1108 2 | need of money. ~The lawless profligacy of Francesco Cenci first
1109 2 | temperament. Five times during his profligate career imprisoned for abominable
1110 1 | story cannot but impress you profoundly. ~She was the daughter of
1111 10| her forehead in graceful profusion. ~As for Giacomo and Bernardo,
1112 10| execution, others during her progress to the scaffold; it is the
1113 1 | the success of this vast project. Every chance was provided
1114 1 | majority, and the Conclave was prolonged almost indefinitely, to
1115 5 | window, and brought into prominence the tranquil face of the
1116 7 | to her, and, as she had promised, she made a full confession. ~
1117 6 | continued unmoved; neither promises, threats, nor torture had
1118 4 | parted bathed in tears, promising to love one another always. ~
1119 9 | and instructed beforehand, promptly lay down on the plank, without
1120 9 | bestride the plank and lie prone upon it; which she did with
1121 6 | he has never found a man proof against this torture; but
1122 9 | age, it had been thought proper to conceal the scaffold
1123 9 | at length, when she was properly adjusted, the executioner
1124 8 | her turn, disposed of her property: she desired to be buried
1125 1 | approved their colleague's proposal, and Adrien became pope
1126 3 | were included in the same proscription, and looked upon themselves
1127 2 | things, if nobody appeared to prosecute the guilty parties. The
1128 1 | Charles the Fifth. The jest prospered in the ears of those who
1129 8 | but at that of others, who protect and defend criminals." ~
1130 8 | the evidence all went to prove that even if the children
1131 7 | Holiness; for just as the law provides for cases in which the father
1132 7 | for if we succeeded in proving that any of the accused
1133 8 | arrival she dictated its provisions with much calmness and precision.
1134 8 | their father's life, all the provocation came from him, and that
1135 2 | long after the cause which provoked it had passed. An adept
1136 5 | and Olympio had been seen prowling round the castle, and that
1137 8 | joined in prayer, reciting psalms, litanies, and prayers far
1138 7 | small stool, undressed her, pulled off her shoes, tied her
1139 2 | fortune which enabled him to purchase immunity, abandoned himself
1140 6 | at hand, he sent for him, purchased his silence with a handsome
1141 5 | sum; Marzio acting out of pure love for Beatrice, whom
1142 3 | accomplish his diabolical purpose, employed all the means
1143 2 | Church, and with this object pushed reform to the minutest details.
1144 1 | that some embody its good qualities and others its bad ones,
1145 10| hacked his body into four quarters. The official party then
1146 4 | spent a week, went off in quest of better luck elsewhere. ~
1147 5 | Florence; but they remained quietly in Rome. ~Meantime Monsignor
1148 5 | hoping at length to enjoy quietude and peace. For some time,
1149 7 | tortures, we proceed to quote the official report:-- ~"
1150 4 | be sent back to Rome to raise the sum; but, under pretext
1151 7 | many persons of princely rank petitioned the Holy Father
1152 4 | and carried off. A heavy ransom was to be demanded, and
1153 2 | both assassins and judges. Rape and murder were so common
1154 1 | interest our readers to cast a rapid glance over the period which
1155 3 | fair hair, a beauty seen so rarely in Italy, that Raffaelle,
1156 | rather
1157 8 | to resignation; but she, raving, wrung her, hands and struck
1158 5 | women. As they had said, a ray of moonlight shone through
1159 6 | the tying of the rope in readiness for its appliance. To increase
1160 7 | pope was so horrified on reading the particulars of the crime
1161 9 | executioner, which were lying ready in a chafing-dish fixed
1162 5 | moment, seeing the sbirri reappear pale and nerveless, shaking
1163 9 | The machine being now rearranged and washed, the executioner
1164 6 | when the crime appeared reasonably probable but was not absolutely
1165 4 | Both these men had private reasons for committing the crime--
1166 9 | pardoned!" The executioner reassured them by seating Bernardo
1167 7 | silent upon this terrible rebuke, except Farinacci, who,
1168 6 | tortures could make him recant, and he died firm in his
1169 7 | continue our pleadings on receiving leave from your Holiness
1170 | recent
1171 6 | generally lasted during the recital of a Pater Noster, an Ave
1172 8 | they joined in prayer, reciting psalms, litanies, and prayers
1173 2 | such as that which this reckless Italian Don Juan seemed
1174 7 | knees, imploring him to reconsider his decree, or at least
1175 10| as may be found to-day recorded in their archives. ~Having
1176 8 | body enabled her mind to recover its balance, and from that
1177 9 | the name of our blessed Redeemer, our Holy Father the Pope
1178 7 | lowered and untied; a barber reduced the dislocation of her arms
1179 6 | the nails and the flesh reeds cut in the shape of whistles. ~
1180 6 | further responsibility, he referred the case to Clement VIII;
1181 2 | with this object pushed reform to the minutest details.
1182 1 | convened to discuss the reforms of Luther, with instructions
1183 4 | by Francesco. The first refusal did not daunt him; he returned
1184 6 | and enlisted in a Swiss regiment in the pay of Henry IV. ~
1185 1 | specimen of the Flemish type a regular Dutchman, and could not
1186 1 | succeeded Alexander VI, and reigned twenty-five days; on the
1187 2 | indulgence; he was spared to rejoice over the Massacre of St.
1188 3 | to the pope a petition, relating the cruel treatment to which
1189 9 | that you accompany your relatives to the scaffold and to their
1190 5 | had it not been for the religious scruples of Signora Lucrezia
1191 2 | dedicated to St. Thomas, he remarked to the architect, when instructing
1192 3 | and the two poor women, remembering that Clement VIII had on
1193 5 | tranquillity, perhaps poisoned by remorse, but ere long retribution
1194 3 | Francesco kept her shut up in a remote apartment of his palace,
1195 7 | her sister had done, to remove her from the paternal roof
1196 6 | Petroni's full habit of body rendered her unable to bear the torture
1197 6 | undisputed. ~This latter reopened the whole interrogatory,
1198 2 | income. They consequently repaired to Frascati, where the pope
1199 10| disavowed this declaration, I repeat, at the moment of appearing
1200 7 | but to save our souls by repentance, undergo death courageously,
1201 9 | sufferer waited with her head replaced on the block; at length,
1202 7 | official report:-- ~"And as in reply to every question she would
1203 3 | that as the young girl was reposing, her head supported on her
1204 8 | calm in the belief of a reprieve. The registrar woke them,
1205 5 | a deep firm .voice thus reproached them. ~"Is it possible that
1206 2 | for the development of a reputation such as that which this
1207 9 | words, not knowing what was required of her, she turned to Alessandro,
1208 10| of his sister, so nearly resembling her, that when he mounted
1209 2 | he took it by force; if resistance were made, he struck, and
1210 4 | families in Rome, of a bold, resolute, and courageous character,
1211 4 | not formed any criminal resolution, and possibly the tragical
1212 6 | opportunely. A man of infinite resource, he lost not a moment in
1213 7 | strong sense of duty, replied respectfully but firmly-- ~"Most Holy
1214 7 | by so many entreaties, he respited them for three days. ~The
1215 6 | Unwilling to take any further responsibility, he referred the case to
1216 5 | the last room, and, while resting there, Lucrezia perceived
1217 1 | the French in 1809, and restored to the pope by the Allies
1218 4 | first night, he wished to resume his intercourse with Beatrice;
1219 9 | to the scaffold was then resumed. ~The two female prisoners
1220 7 | the advocates, who then retired, excepting d'Altieri, who
1221 5 | by remorse, but ere long retribution pursued them. The court
1222 3 | rich as a king, every night revelled in the orgies of Alexander,
1223 3 | of Alexander, the wedding revels of Lucrezia, and the excesses
1224 2 | worldly matters to amass a net revenue of a hundred and sixty thousand
1225 10| and it was necessary to revive him with stimulants to witness
1226 2 | The good Gregory had his reward for his easygoing indulgence;
1227 3 | and obedient she would be rewarded by heavenly sights, as well
1228 9 | the same hue, with bows of ribbon, as was the fashion; whilst
1229 2 | horsemanship, he sometimes used to ride without stopping from Rome
1230 1 | the first chapel to the right, the Christ Scourged, by
1231 7 | Francesco Cenci had lost all the rights of a father from, the day
1232 3 | praying that the extreme rigour of the law, a capital sentence,
1233 3 | entered his daughter's roam and invited her to join
1234 6 | sleepless torture, was simply roasting the soles of the feet before
1235 1 | sister of Pope Calixtus III, Roderigo Lenzuoli Borgia, before
1236 5 | on the floor where it had rolled. The young girl then, faithful
1237 1 | Fra Bartolommeo, Giulio Romano, Ariosto, Guicciardini,
1238 2 | Adrien wished to bring the Romans back to the simple and austere
1239 9 | appearance by the fiscal of Rome-- ~"Signor Bernardo Cenci,
1240 7 | remove her from the paternal roof and place her in a convent.
1241 1 | cardinal, had five children by Rosa Vanozza, whom he afterwards
1242 9 | heels, ornamented with gold rosettes and cherry-coloured fringe.
1243 9 | prisoners followed the last row of penitents in single file,
1244 5 | of violence, despatched a royal commissioner to Petrella
1245 4 | him success; yet he was rudely dismissed by Francesco.
1246 3 | not good from evil: her ruin was comparatively easy to
1247 5 | which had been allowed to run to waste. They hoped that
1248 8 | heard mass, and received the sacraments; after which Beatrice, observing
1249 2 | motives of interest. Impious, sacrilegious, and atheistical, he never
1250 10| turning to his brother, said-- ~"Bernardo, if in my examination
1251 3 | told her that the greatest saints venerated by the Church
1252 1 | on one side a picture by Salviati, on slate, and on the other
1253 5 | would do nothing without his sanction. As for Monsignor Guerra,
1254 2 | church except to profane its sanctity. It was said of him that
1255 10| enabled us to compile this sanguinary history; they are thus described
1256 1 | Correggio, Titian, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolommeo, Giulio
1257 1 | against, except one; but Satan himself could hardly have
1258 8 | who read it with great satisfaction, and entertained hopes that
1259 6 | refused to confess--a very satisfactory result for the inventor. ~
1260 7 | Altieri, who knelt before him, saying-- ~ ~ ~
1261 6 | closed his eyes. Marsilius says he has never found a man
1262 2 | common that public justice scarcely troubled itself with these
1263 5 | girl gave him a handsome scarlet mantle, trimmed with gold
1264 10| eye-witness of the closing scene-- ~Giacomo was short, well-made
1265 4 | justice. ~This well-devised scheme was nevertheless unsuccessful.
1266 10| unfortunately so hot, and the sun so scorching, that many persons fainted,
1267 1 | to the right, the Christ Scourged, by Sebastian del Piombo,
1268 4 | Francesco left Rome, the scout sent in advance by the conspirators
1269 5 | his end. The body was so scratched and disfigured that no one
1270 5 | not been for the religious scruples of Signora Lucrezia Petroni.
1271 1 | the Greek masterpieces of sculpture collected at vast cost by
1272 9 | executioner reassured them by seating Bernardo near the block,
1273 1 | the Christ Scourged, by Sebastian del Piombo, and in the third
1274 5 | window which looked on to a secluded courtyard; she gave them
1275 6 | many of the monsignor's secrets. ~Luckily for himself, Monsignor
1276 3 | the door closed, and the seductive vision vanished, leaving
1277 | seem
1278 | seeming
1279 | seems
1280 7 | of the accused acted in self-defence, I hope that they will be
1281 2 | were the owner unwilling to sell he took it by force; if
1282 2 | about them, and did not even send them the means of subsistence.
1283 2 | so doing to enjoy a new sensation. ~At the age of about forty-five
1284 7 | nerving himself with a strong sense of duty, replied respectfully
1285 3 | brilliantly illuminated, and sensuous with perfumes; beautiful
1286 7 | Having seen that Beatrice was sentenced to the torture ordinary
1287 4 | eyes swimming in poetic sentiment; his hair was long and fair,
1288 8 | the unhappy youths. Here a serious accident had nearly happened.
1289 2 | Francesco Cenci first began seriously to attract public attention
1290 1 | only instructed him not to serve this wine till he himself
1291 1 | interval a careless butler served the poisoned wine to the
1292 4 | Marzio, who was in the service of Giacomo, had often seen
1293 3 | spend a farthing on funeral services. They were accordingly borne
1294 10| special licence of the pope, set at liberty the unhappy Bernardo
1295 8 | Marchese di Santa Croce, a man seventy years of age, by his son
1296 1 | and along its canals the shade and freshness so rare in
1297 9 | suffering even more from shame than from fear, was kept
1298 6 | the flesh reeds cut in the shape of whistles. ~The fire,
1299 3 | Lucrezia and Beatrice to share the same bed, threatening
1300 5 | perceived the two sbirri, sharing the money before making
1301 10| having bandaged his eyes, shattered his head with a blow of
1302 4 | Petroni was a veritable Roman she-wolf, passionate alike in love
1303 7 | feet; her arms, from the shock, were dislocated from their
1304 7 | so barbarous a sentence shocked the public mind, so much
1305 7 | undressed her, pulled off her shoes, tied her hands behind her
1306 5 | said, a ray of moonlight shone through the open window,
1307 7 | joining in the prayer, she shook convulsively and cried several
1308 10| closing scene-- ~Giacomo was short, well-made and strong, with
1309 9 | But her precautions to shorten the bitterness of death
1310 8 | her head against the wall, shrieking, "To die! to die! Am I to
1311 9 | immense crowd, Lucrezia shuddered from head to foot; then,
1312 3 | custody, Francesco kept her shut up in a remote apartment
1313 7 | Seeing which, we made a sign to the executioner, to let
1314 7 | produced, bearing their signatures, she persisted in denying
1315 9 | by the fiscal of Rome-- ~"Signor Bernardo Cenci, in the name
1316 6 | sent for him, purchased his silence with a handsome bribe, and
1317 9 | young unmarried girl, wore a silk flat cap to match her corsage,
1318 2 | bring the Romans back to the simple and austere manners of the
1319 6 | the sleepless torture, was simply roasting the soles of the
1320 1 | persecution on account of the sins of man, and especially those
1321 7 | off her hair, he made her sit on a small stool, undressed
1322 3 | unhappy daughters. Their situation soon became so intolerable,
1323 10| most Holy Trinity of Pope Sixtus, as may be found to-day
1324 1 | bed, and sloughed off his skin; while Cardinal Corneto
1325 1 | the altar for a mortuary slab, which you will identify
1326 9 | untrammelled, except far a thin slack cord which left their hands
1327 1 | picture by Salviati, on slate, and on the other a work
1328 3 | horrible; but Francesco had the slaw persistence of a demon.
1329 8 | the neck, with long wide sleeves. That for Lucrezia was made
1330 7 | his own defence, when they slew him in so merciless and
1331 2 | and whenever moved or even slightly irritated, he was seized
1332 10| to lay it on the bier, it slipped from him and fell from the
1333 1 | was confined to bed, and sloughed off his skin; while Cardinal
1334 4 | On her side, she was not slow to return the sympathy of
1335 6 | and dropped again, either slowly or with a jerk, as ordered
1336 6 | that he, more than ever smitten by her beauty, determined,
1337 6 | hair, stained his beard, smudged his face, bought two asses,
1338 3 | uneducated, deprived of all society, even that of her stepmother,
1339 7 | were dislocated from their sockets; she uttered a loud cry,
1340 1 | of them for himself, he sold them to Giuliano della Rovere,
1341 2 | conquered by the Lutheran soldiers of the Constable of Bourbon,
1342 6 | was simply roasting the soles of the feet before a hot
1343 | someone
1344 | something
1345 2 | the upper eyelids drooped somewhat; his nose was long, his
1346 4 | Monsignor the Abbe Guerra. ~No sooner had he seen Beatrice than
1347 7 | remains but to save our souls by repentance, undergo death
1348 3 | sights, as well as heavenly sounds. ~One night it came to pass
1349 9 | On arriving at the open space before the bridge, the women
1350 1 | acting head of affairs in Spain, in the absence of Charles
1351 1 | under his control eighteen Spanish cardinals who owed to him
1352 9 | our Holy Father the Pope spares your life; with the sole
1353 10| brotherhood of San Marcello, by special licence of the pope, set
1354 1 | accident. ~He was a perfect specimen of the Flemish type a regular
1355 9 | several stands, full of spectators, broke down; some people
1356 8 | intoxicated, recovered her speech, uttering despairing cries.
1357 8 | she seemed paralysed and speechless; then she rose from bed,
1358 8 | carry out the sentence as speedily as possible." ~On his return
1359 3 | priest that he would not spend a farthing on funeral services.
1360 7 | Nicolo degli Angeli, who spoke with such force and eloquence
1361 9 | intelligence, a loud murmur of joy spread among the crowd, and the
1362 1 | mortal; ~Giofre, Count of Squillace, of whom little is known; ~
1363 8 | then she rose from bed, and staggering as if intoxicated, recovered
1364 9 | decapitation of Beatrice, several stands, full of spectators, broke
1365 2 | Aldobrandini Villa, and stated their case. The pope admitted
1366 3 | which they laid before him a statement of all the blows and outrages
1367 6 | Consequently, he declared all his statements to be false, and asked forgiveness
1368 10| each on its bier under the statue of St. Paul, at the foot
1369 4 | escaped, and, unwilling to stay any longer in a place where
1370 5 | were awake? And thus you steal our money! Very well: since
1371 5 | foreseen, that Francesco, stepping over the edge of the 386
1372 1 | stabbed to death on the steps of the basilica of St. Peter,
1373 10| necessary to revive him with stimulants to witness the fate of his
1374 3 | these sights, calculated to stimulate her passions, he added heresies
1375 4 | of her own wrongs; and, stimulating each other's desire for
1376 4 | heart of the other woman the sting of her own wrongs; and,
1377 5 | thousand piastres, half the stipulated sum; Marzio acting out of
1378 7 | made her sit on a small stool, undressed her, pulled off
1379 2 | sometimes used to ride without stopping from Rome to Naples, a distance
1380 9 | on account of her extreme stoutness; then, on her reaching the
1381 10| complexion, graceful contour, straight nose, black eyebrows, and
1382 2 | of subsistence. In these straits, after struggling for some
1383 1 | manners, gives to this epoch a strange complexion. Crimes for the
1384 3 | flower; and Francesco, a stranger to no crime, however heinous,
1385 1 | afterwards, three weeks later, strangled, because he did not die
1386 6 | other Latin countries as the strappado. ~It was divided into three
1387 2 | rather thin; his hair was streaked with grey, his eyes were
1388 8 | earth, which fell into the street and narrowly missed one
1389 5 | of the gallery. But their strength failed them when they reached
1390 10| fainted, others returned home stricken with fever, and some even
1391 2 | the pope's orders were too stringent to be disobeyed. ~ ~ ~
1392 6 | into the torture chamber, stripping, and the tying of the rope
1393 4 | Rocco Petrella, a fortified stronghold in the kingdom of Naples,
1394 2 | In these straits, after struggling for some months against
1395 6 | from women or men of highly strung nerves. ~The second degree,
1396 8 | sat up all night over it, studying it with Cardinal di San
1397 8 | was made of black cotton stuff, Beatrice's of taffetas.
1398 10| complexion. The age of the subject may be twenty, or perhaps
1399 4 | same person, the timid and submissive child had become a girl
1400 2 | all." The architect often subsequently admitted that he was so
1401 2 | even send them the means of subsistence. In these straits, after
1402 1 | Colonna had equal claims to succeed him. As both were skilful
1403 6 | without confirmation, that he succeeded--in reaching France, and
1404 5 | of Naples, hearing of the sudden and unexpected death of
1405 3 | harmony, the chamber door suddenly opened, and from the darkness
1406 1 | to pieces, exclaiming, "Suet idola anticorum." His first
1407 6 | round the wrists. This often sufficed to extract a confession
1408 4 | third, insisting upon the suitableness of such a union. At length
1409 3 | her own room she beheld a suite of apartments brilliantly
1410 8 | criminal cases. Then, having summed it up, he sent a draft of
1411 8 | clock in the morning, he summoned Monsignor Taverna, governor
1412 8 | and they awaited the last summons. ~In the meantime, Giacomo
1413 10| unfortunately so hot, and the sun so scorching, that many
1414 1 | indulged in by Alcibiades and sung by Catullus. Leo X died
1415 1 | in the middle of which, sunk a few feet below the level,
1416 10| during the night, owing to sunstroke from exposure during the
1417 3 | contriving to elude the close supervision under which she was kept,
1418 5 | September, 1598, the two women, supping with the old man, mixed
1419 6 | the charcoal dealer who supplied his house with fuel was
1420 7 | violated his daughter. In support of his contention he wished
1421 3 | girl was reposing, her head supported on her elbow, and listening
1422 10| girlish face led people to suppose him to be Beatrice herself:
1423 9 | assistance, some of the crowd, supposing that his object was to decapitate
1424 3 | decided disposition. ~To make sure of her custody, Francesco
1425 10| a perfectly farmed nose surmounts an infantile mouth; unfortunately,
1426 5 | myself; but you will not long survive him." ~Hearing these words,
1427 4 | the mind of Beatrice was susceptible to the best and the worst
1428 9 | than from fear, was kept in suspense; at length, when she was
1429 6 | ordered by the judge. The suspension generally lasted during
1430 5 | his wine so adroitly that, suspicious though he was, he never
1431 5 | detected it, and having swallowed the potion, soon fell into
1432 4 | features he added blue eyes swimming in poetic sentiment; his
1433 6 | France, and enlisted in a Swiss regiment in the pay of Henry
1434 2 | and unarmed save for his sword and dagger. When his horse
1435 6 | sometimes a whole hour, was swung about by the executioner,
1436 9 | and worshipped the holy symbol as the others had done.
1437 2 | feet four inches in height, symmetrically proportioned, and very strong,
1438 3 | was lively, joyous, and sympathetic, but at the same time evinced
1439 4 | was not slow to return the sympathy of the young priest. The
1440 2 | competitor; they were even talking about Cardinal Orsini, when
1441 1 | having sought under its tall pines and along its canals
1442 1 | charming vices, vices in good taste, such as those indulged
1443 8 | morning, he summoned Monsignor Taverna, governor of Rome, and said
1444 7 | killing me; but were you to tear out my arms, I would tell
1445 5 | trimmed with gold lace, telling him to wear it for love
1446 2 | his fiery and passionate temperament. Five times during his profligate
1447 1 | was crucified, a little temple, half Greek, half Christian;
1448 2 | with the spiritual than the temporal administration of his kingdom,
1449 6 | the way came across him at Terni, and conscientiously did
1450 2 | admitted that he was so terrified by the fiendish laugh which
1451 6 | appliance. To increase the terror these preliminaries excited,
1452 | thence
1453 9 | plank and block were placed thereon. Above the block was hung,
1454 8 | Giorgio di Velobre, and left thirty-two thousand crowns to charities,
1455 2 | chapel dedicated to St. Thomas, he remarked to the architect,
1456 4 | him; he gave her a violent thrashing. Lucrezia Petroni was a
1457 6 | it caused, comprised the threat of severe torture, introduction
1458 3 | unknown to her. Francesco threatened and prayed, but threats
1459 3 | Beatrice to share the same bed, threatening his wife to kill her if
1460 5 | drove it into his head. The throat was pierced in the same
1461 1 | ascended the pontifical throne. Son of a sister of Pope
1462 5 | small rampart, intending to throw it down into a garden which
1463 6 | persons; it consisted in thrusting between the nails and the
1464 8 | Beatrice was at first thunderstruck: she seemed paralysed and
1465 2 | person, nobody tried to thwart him; some yielding through
1466 2 | magnificent palace, near the Tiber, a chapel dedicated to St.
1467 3 | Lucrezia, and the excesses of Tiberius at Capri. After an hour,
1468 8 | cries. Lucrezia heard the tidings with more firmness, and
1469 9 | executioner descended, entered tie chapel, and reappeared leading
1470 6 | physical pain was added by tightening a cord round the wrists.
1471 9 | did with great trouble and timidity; but as she was unable,
1472 1 | day that a cardinal, more tired than the rest, proposed
1473 1 | Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio, Titian, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolommeo,
1474 8 | to consecrate a cardinal titular bishop in the church of
1475 10| Sixtus, as may be found to-day recorded in their archives. ~
1476 8 | help one another at our toilet for the last time." They
1477 10| archives. ~Having now seen the tomb, if you desire to form a
1478 10| unfortunately, the loss of tone in the picture since it
1479 1 | pointing out in melancholy tones a copy of Guido's Martyrdom
1480 9 | her back, tore open the top of her corsage so as to
1481 8 | It passed so close to the torch as to extinguish the flame
1482 8 | Confraternity who was amongst the torch-bearers just before the crucifix.
1483 6 | by the most ingenious of tormentors. ~To make the nature of
1484 7 | not suffer you to be thus tortured." ~Then said Beatrice, shaking
1485 9 | its whole weight at the touch of a spring. ~In this formation
1486 9 | adjusted, the executioner touched. the spring, the knife fell,
1487 7 | we again interrogated her touching the aforesaid parricide;
1488 7 | the papal documents, no trace of it could be found. ~The
1489 2 | and beg their way home, tramping barefoot through France
1490 5 | indeed, they did enjoy tranquillity, perhaps poisoned by remorse,
1491 1 | take you to each end of the transverse cross, and will show you--
1492 2 | Cenci, afterwards apostolic treasurer during the pontificate of
1493 3 | petition, relating the cruel treatment to which she was subjected,
1494 2 | seized with a fit of nervous trembling, which lasted long after
1495 4 | young priest. The Council of Trent had not been held at that
1496 2 | free-handed person, nobody tried to thwart him; some yielding
1497 2 | troubled itself with these trifling things, if nobody appeared
1498 5 | handsome scarlet mantle, trimmed with gold lace, telling
1499 10| brotherhood of the most Holy Trinity of Pope Sixtus, as may be
1500 2 | public justice scarcely troubled itself with these trifling
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