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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

CHAPTER III
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pp.
341-361, for the translation of a process instituted in 1570 against a Mauresque female slave.

Suspected of being a disguised infidel, she was exposed to the temptations of a Moorish spy, and convicted mainly on the evidence furnished by certain Mussulman habits to which she adhered.
Llorente reports a similar specimen case, vol.i.p.

442.

The culprit was a tinker aged 71, accused in 1528 of abstaining from pork and wine, and using certain ablutions.

He defended himself by pleading that, having been converted at the age of 45, it did not suit his taste to eat pork or drink wine, and that his trade obliged him to maintain cleanliness by frequent washing.


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