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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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Caponsacchi visited Pompiliaafter she had left the convent and had returned to thehouse of the Comparini in the Via Vittoria is a recklessfiction. There is, on the other hand, every assurancethat the priest never left Civita Vecchia between thetime of his banishment to that town and the fatal dayin January when the murders were committed. 6. With regard to the last-named point, it wasadmitted that the decree of banishment of the priest wasworded as follows: September 24, 1697. GiuseppeMaria Caponsacchi of Arezzo, for complicity in flightand running away of Francesca Comparini, and forcarnal knowledge of the same, has been banished forthree years to Civita Vecchia. It was, however, shownthat the words employed in this decree merely reproducethe title or subject of the charge. They do not showthat the charge was proved, and indeed it never wasproved. The wording of the order was admitted by theofficials responsible for the same to be misleading and 82 Scale of Yards0 10G 200 300 400 500
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33.—MAP OF AREZZO. The Trial for Murder untrue, and a modification of the decree was allowed bythe Court. This item of supposed evidence thereforecame to nothing. Count Guidos advocates went on to state that thedelay in the killing of the errant wife did not makeher fault the less, and that the injury to the husbandshonour still remained, while the sense of his shamewas rather increased by reflection and a fuller contem-plation of his position. He might have killed Pompilia with impunity atCastelnuovo, but he preferred to leave her punishmentto the law; moreover, he was alone, was exhausted byhis breathless journey and was not well enough armedto meet so formidable an antagonist as the young priest.The law failed him. He could not slay his wife solong as she was confined in the convent, but he didavenge his bitter wrong the moment that he foundthat she was free. The same injured honour which impelled CountGuido to slay his wife, also justified him in slaying thetwo Comparini. They h

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