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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

CHAPTER V
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But there was an expectation of getting hold of him through less reputable agents.
Therefore they offered free pardon to a bandit and a couple of accomplices, who might undertake the capture or the murder of the proscribed outlaw in concert, and in the event of his being produced alive, a sum of money down.

Osio, apparently, spent some years in exile, changing place, and name, and dress, living as he could from hand to mouth, until the rumor spread abroad that he was dead.

He then returned to his country, and begged for sanctuary from an old friend.
That friend betrayed him, had his throat cut in a cellar, and exposed his head upon the public market place.
Virginia was sentenced to perpetual incarceration in the convent of S.
Valeria at Milan.

She was to be 'inclosed within a little dungeon, the door of which shall be walled up with stones and mortar, so that the said Virginia Maria shall abide there for the term of her natural life, immured both day and night, never to issue thence, but shall receive food and other necessaries through a small hole in the wall of the said chamber, and light and air through an aperture or other opening.' This sentence was carried into effect.

But at the expiration of many years, her behavior justified some mitigation of the penalty.


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