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Identifier: countryofringb00trev (find matches)
Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Franceschini and his companions had been in-formed that their appeal had been refused, and thatthey were to be put to death that very day. To Count Guido the announcement was utterly un-expected. He was at first dazed and stupefied, butafter a moment he said : 11 I feared a heavy sentence, but not the sentence ofdeath. The few curious folk who had gathered around theprison door saw in the dark the Cardinal Acciaiuoli andthe Abate Panciatichi arrive, saw them silently admitted,and the door close behind them. They had come toadminister the last consolations of the Church to thesefive who were now entering the valley of the shadowof death. Men passing in boats down the Tiber sawunwonted lights in the prison and guessed the reasonof them. In the meantime the Piazza del Popolo was thescene of extraordinary activity. By the fluttering lightof many lanterns men were erecting a scaffold in thecentre of the piazza. The scaffold was lofty, and the 88 4 CDNNO OP ►d o g bo CO o I o ;=r ►d 00
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35.—THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DELLA PIEVE, AREZZO. Caponsacchis church. The Execution in the Piazza del Popolo steps that led to its high platform were steep. Upthis stair two men, illumined by eager lantern-bearers,were staggering under a heavy burden. It was theheadsmans block, and its disposal on the scaffold wasthe subject of much comment and possibly of somecoarse jesting. On either side of the mannaia was agallows, from the cross beams of which two ropes, witha noose at the end of each, were dangling. The country-man coming in through the gate with his cattle neednot be told that five men were to die that day. Itwas with dumb amazement that these early-comersviewed the piazza. The place at night was generallyas silent as a glen in the Campagna, and was a spotwhere both the sheep and their shepherds could sleepuntil it was light enough to make for the market-placeof Rome. In the piazza itself people were busy putting upstands for those who would witness the spectacle. Inspite o

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