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Title: Castle St. Angelo ; and, The evil eye : being additional chapters to "Roba di Roma"
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895
Subjects: Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo Evil eye Castles
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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d for having cut off the ear ofMalchus. The Church also felt the severe rule of Sixtus, and con-vent-walls were no longer a safe refuge for crime. A Fran-cisian friar was hung on the Bridge of St. Angelo. AnnibaldiCapello, a priest, who was accused of conveying informationto England of what was occurring in Borne, was degradedfrom his office, had his tongue and hands cut off, and wasthen hanged on the same bridge. A friar who excited thepeople by falsely pretending that miracles were wrought byan image in Sta. Maria del Popolo, was scourged the wholelength of the Corso. The Cardinal Guasta Villani wasarrested for disobedience ; and when the Cardinal de Medicisintervened in his favour, the Pope said, Your languageastonishes us. We intend to be obeyed here in Borne byour own people, as we hope to be obeyed by princes. So determined was Sixtus to root out crime, that he oftenwas guilty, in so doing, of injustice and of cruelty. On oneoccasion he hanged a woman because she had allowed her
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SIXTUS V.—PASQUINADES—HIS CRUELTY. 117 daughter to become the mistress of a noble ; and thedaughter, attired in a rich dress given her by her lover, wasforced to be present at the execution of her mother. Nic-colino Azzelino, a captain in the Pontifical guard, was alsoexecuted for having wounded an ensign in his company ; andsome young nobles, among whom were Virginio Orsini,Ascanio Sforza, and Marc Antonio Incoronati, having madelight of the Popes rigorous edicts by setting up a row ofcats heads on the points of pikes along the Bridge of St.Angelo, were arrested, and narrowly escaped with their lives.Such, at last, was the fear of the Pope, that his very namewas used by mothers to frighten their children to obedience—just as the Black Douglass name was used in the earlydays of Scotland. Zitto ! ecco Sesto che i:>assa. For one pasquinade Sixtus exacted a savage punish-ment, altogether disproportioned to the offence, and inbreach of honour and good faith. Marforio, alluding to

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