[Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 by John Addington Symonds]@TWC D-Link bookRenaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 CHAPTER V 43/151
His goods were confiscated to the State.
His house in Monza was destroyed, and a pillar of infamy recording his crimes, was erected on its site.
A proclamation of outlawry was issued on April 5, 1608, under the seal of Don Pietro de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes, and governor of the State of Milan, which offered 'to any person not himself an outlaw, or to any commune, that shall consign Gianpaolo Osio to the hands of justice, the reward of a thousand scudi from the royal ducal treasury, together with the right to free four bandits condemned for similar or less offenses; and in case of his being delivered dead, even though he shall be slain in foreign parts, then the half of the aforesaid sum of money, and the freedom of two bandits as above.
And if the person who shall consign him alive be himself an outlaw for similar or less offenses, he shall receive, beside the freedom of himself and two other bandits, the half of the aforesaid sum of money; and in the case of his consignment after death, the freedom of himself and of two other bandits as aforesaid.' I have recited this _Bando_, because it is a good instance of the procedure in use under like conditions.
Justice preferred to obtain the culprit alive, and desired to receive him at honest hands.
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