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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

CHAPTER V
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Their sentence was as follows: Sister Orizia condemned to incarceration for life, and loss of all her privileges; Sister Umilia, to the same penalties for a term of seven years; Sisters Paola, Cherubina, and Dionea, received a lighter punishment.

Orizia, it may be mentioned, had written a letter with her own blood to some lover; but nothing leads us to suppose that she was equally guilty with Umilia, who had entered into the plot to poison Sister Calidonia.
Umilia was duly immured, and bore her punishment until the year 1616, at which time the sentence expired.

But she was not released for another two years; for she persistently refused to humble herself, or to request that liberation as a grace which was her due in justice.

Nor would she submit to the shame of being seen about the convent without her monastic habit.

Finally, in 1618, she obtained freedom and restoration to her privileges as a nun of S.Chiara.It may be added, as a last remark, that, when the convent was being set to rights, Umilia's portrait in the character of S.Ursula was ordered to be destroyed, or rendered fit for devout uses by alterations.


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