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1501 1 | Cenci. Whether or not it be true that men are born in harmony
1502 10| occupied by the execution. ~The Tuesday following, the 14th of September;
1503 2 | Rocco, were out of their tutors' hands, in order to get
1504 3 | She was then a child of twelve or thirteen years of age,
1505 1 | twenty-five days; on the twenty-sixth he was poisoned also. ~Caesar
1506 10| may be twenty, or perhaps twenty-two years. ~Near this portrait
1507 6 | chamber, stripping, and the tying of the rope in readiness
1508 4 | and, to be more free to tyrannise over Lucrezia and Beatrice,
1509 8 | taken in this crime by the tyranny, wickedness, and brutality
1510 6 | where he embarked. What ultimately became of him was never
1511 6 | unflinchingly, and the judge Ulysses Moscati himself, famous
1512 2 | although he might be alone and unarmed save for his sword and dagger.
1513 9 | of her corsage so as to uncover her shoulders, gave her
1514 4 | the fresh outrage she had undergone; this roused in the heart
1515 9 | placing a billet of wood underneath it; all this time the poor
1516 3 | money. ~It will be readily understood that his sons' conduct on
1517 4 | to hatred and revenge. He undertook to communicate with Giacomo
1518 6 | insensibility to emotion were undisputed. ~This latter reopened the
1519 5 | Cenci family, who remained undisturbed for many months, during
1520 3 | herself on her bed without undressing. At the accustomed hour
1521 3 | Brought up as she had been, uneducated, deprived of all society,
1522 5 | women, where the terrace was unfenced by any parapet, they threw
1523 6 | her; she bore everything unflinchingly, and the judge Ulysses Moscati
1524 6 | torture, a thing almost unheard of, seeing that it cut the
1525 4 | the suitableness of such a union. At length Francesco, losing
1526 2 | them he sent them to the University of Salamanca, where, out
1527 2 | father harsher and more unkind than ever. ~This happened
1528 9 | whilst Beatrice, as a young unmarried girl, wore a silk flat cap
1529 8 | die! to die! Am I to die unprepared, on a scaffold! on a gibbet!
1530 4 | scheme was nevertheless unsuccessful. When Francesco left Rome,
1531 7 | turning to the officers:-- ~"Untie me," said she, "read the
1532 9 | fringe. The arms of both were untrammelled, except far a thin slack
1533 2 | expressive, although the upper eyelids drooped somewhat;
1534 8 | succeeded, after long and urgent entreaties, and only at
1535 | us
1536 1 | condition and could make no use of them for himself, he
1537 4 | purse he found extremely useful. It had so happened that
1538 7 | dislocation of her arms in the usual manner; the examination
1539 1 | weaver, others of a brewer of Utrecht, of whom no one had ever
1540 8 | intoxicated, recovered her speech, uttering despairing cries. Lucrezia
1541 2 | the pontificate of Pius V. Under this venerable prelate,
1542 1 | cardinal, afterwards Duke of Valentinois; ~Lucrezia, who was married
1543 3 | and the seductive vision vanished, leaving Beatrice full of
1544 1 | had five children by Rosa Vanozza, whom he afterwards caused
1545 6 | Vatican manuscripts. ~Of the various forms of torture then used
1546 1 | and on the other a work by Vasari; then, pointing out in melancholy
1547 2 | instructing him to design a family vault, "That is where I hope to
1548 6 | a pulley bolted into the vaulted ceiling, the other end being
1549 9 | cart. Having ascended the vehicle, in which the executioner
1550 9 | penitents in single file, veiled to the waist, with the distinction
1551 2 | pontificate of Pius V. Under this venerable prelate, who occupied himself
1552 3 | that the greatest saints venerated by the Church were the issue
1553 4 | passionate alike in love and vengeance; she endured all, but pardoned
1554 5 | prevented them from escaping to Venice or Florence; but they remained
1555 4 | Lucrezia Petroni was a veritable Roman she-wolf, passionate
1556 2 | Francesco Cenci, inheriting vicious instincts and master of
1557 3 | with rage when he saw this victim released from his clutches. ~
1558 8 | attachment, as it commanded a view of her father's palace.
1559 2 | under the name of Clement VII. The same day, he generously
1560 1 | Raffaelle, Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio, Titian, Andrea
1561 1 | Adrien to supper in his vineyard on the Belvidere; Cardinal
1562 7 | father from, the day that he violated his daughter. In support
1563 4 | betraying him; he gave her a violent thrashing. Lucrezia Petroni
1564 9 | shoulders and covered her violet frock; white slippers with
1565 5 | day of the Nativity of the Virgin; but Signora Lucrezia, a
1566 3 | closed, and the seductive vision vanished, leaving Beatrice
1567 6 | and pulley, the most in vogue of all, and known in other
1568 9 | tears, she cried with a loud voice-- ~"O my God, have mercy
1569 2 | if Francesco Cenci were void of all natural affection,
1570 10| same time imperious and voluptuous indicate this character
1571 2 | very first ballot after the wager, Giulio di Medici got the
1572 9 | single file, veiled to the waist, with the distinction that
1573 9 | during which the sufferer waited with her head replaced on
1574 8 | struck her head against the wall, shrieking, "To die! to
1575 3 | added heresies designed to warp her mind; he told her that
1576 5 | appear strong enough to warrant the arrest of the Cenci
1577 6 | confronted with the accused. Warrants were immediately issued
1578 6 | The monsignor was a most wary man, and very difficult
1579 5 | a bloodstained sheet to wash. This, clue led to terrible
1580 9 | being now rearranged and washed, the executioner returned
1581 10| much time was occupied in washing it. Poor Bernardo was so
1582 5 | had been allowed to run to waste. They hoped that the old
1583 10| with four torches of white wax, which burned till four
1584 1 | pope wished to inherit his wealth, as he already had acquired
1585 5 | gold lace, telling him to wear it for love of her. As for
1586 10| the head of a lovely girl, wearing a headdress composed of
1587 1 | the son, some say of a weaver, others of a brewer of Utrecht,
1588 3 | orgies of Alexander, the wedding revels of Lucrezia, and
1589 4 | they had already spent a week, went off in quest of better
1590 1 | Peter, and afterwards, three weeks later, strangled, because
1591 5 | came out from their rooms, weeping and lamenting in so natural
1592 6 | and dislocated the limbs, weights were attached to the feet,
1593 4 | would escape justice. ~This well-devised scheme was nevertheless
1594 10| scene-- ~Giacomo was short, well-made and strong, with black hair
1595 9 | formation the procession wended its way towards the bridge
1596 9 | broken down of the two, wept bitterly; but Beatrice was
1597 | whenever
1598 6 | reeds cut in the shape of whistles. ~The fire, frequently employed
1599 | whither
1600 | why
1601 8 | this crime by the tyranny, wickedness, and brutality of her father.
1602 8 | gathered at the neck, with long wide sleeves. That for Lucrezia
1603 9 | distinction that Lucrezia, as a widow, wore a black veil and high-heeled
1604 7 | culprits to be dragged by wild horses through the streets
1605 8 | persons were at the prison windows to see the prisoners come
1606 3 | yielding to her father's wishes: she replied that, not seeing
1607 10| at length arrived: he had witnessed the death of his stepmother
1608 8 | reprieve. The registrar woke them, and told them that,
1609 8 | Holiness. At length Farinacci, working on the papal conscience,
1610 8 | the tragedy had occupied workmen on the bridge of Sant' Angelo
1611 1 | capital of the Christian world, you will descend towards
1612 2 | spiritual head's abstraction of worldly matters to amass a net revenue
1613 10| and attired in the dress worn at her execution, was carried
1614 4 | susceptible to the best and the worst influences: it could attain
1615 7 | the aforesaid chamber, and wound up at the other end by a
1616 9 | it to the multitude, and wrapping it in black taffetas, placed
1617 4 | threats, and blows. ~The wrath of Francesco fell upon his
1618 2 | some months against their wretched plight, the lads were obliged
1619 6 | it cut the flesh of the wrist to the bone and dislocated
1620 5 | from the body, which lay writhing on the floor where it had
1621 5 | them letters which she had written to her brother and to Monsignor
1622 4 | woman the sting of her own wrongs; and, stimulating each other'
1623 8 | resignation; but she, raving, wrung her, hands and struck her
1624 2 | the pontificate of Gregory XIII. This reign offered marvellous
1625 1 | transverse cross, and will show you--on one side a picture by
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