Cenci
Cenci
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If hestood this torture, a thing almost unheard of, seeing that it cut theflesh of the wrist to the bone and dislocated the limbs, weights wereattached to the feet, thus doubling the torture. This last form oftorture was only applied when an atrocious crime had been proved to havebeen committed upon a sacred person, such as a priest, a cardinal, aprince, or an eminent and learned man.
Having seen that Beatrice was sentenced to the torture ordinary andextraordinary, and having explained the natu...re of these tortures, weproceed to quote the official report:-- "And as in reply to every question she would confess nothing, we causedher to be taken by two officers and led from the prison to the torturechamber, where the torturer was in attendance; there, after cutting offher hair, he made her sit on a small stool, undressed her, pulled offher shoes, tied her hands behind her back, fastened them to a ropepassed over a pulley bolted into the ceiling of the aforesaid chamber, and wound up at the other end by a four lever windlass, worked by twomen.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If hestood this torture, a thing almost unheard of, seeing that it cut theflesh of the wrist to the bone and dislocated the limbs, weights wereattached to the feet, thus doubling the torture. This last form oftorture was only applied when an atrocious crime had been proved to havebeen committed upon a sacred person, such as a priest, a cardinal, aprince, or an eminent and learned man.
Having seen that Beatrice was sentenced to the torture ordinary andextraordinary, and having explained the natu...re of these tortures, weproceed to quote the official report:-- "And as in reply to every question she would confess nothing, we causedher to be taken by two officers and led from the prison to the torturechamber, where the torturer was in attendance; there, after cutting offher hair, he made her sit on a small stool, undressed her, pulled offher shoes, tied her hands behind her back, fastened them to a ropepassed over a pulley bolted into the ceiling of the aforesaid chamber, and wound up at the other end by a four lever windlass, worked by twomen.
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