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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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to make away with hex. Forthis purpose he invented an infamous plan, by which hehoped to cover his crime. He wrote to his brother Onofrio,accusing her of being with child, and so given over todebauchery as to stain the name of the family, and askingcounsel of his brother as to what he ought to do. Onofrioanswered that he should do what was becoming to acavaliere (che facesse quello diera dovuto ad un cavaliere).The chief accusation against her was in itself absurd,as his mother was sixty years old ; and the statementsas to her dissoluteness of life were equally unfounded.However, on receiving the answer of his brother, he imme-diately killed her by stabbing her with a dagger. The indig-nation of all was so vehemently expressed, that Paolo,fearing for his life, fled, and had the fortune to escape. Apost-mortem examination wras made, and she was proved tobe innocent of the charge he had made against her. Onofrio * Di modo che ancora morta pareva ridesse, says the MS. in my pos-session.
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BEATRICE CENCI. Page 130. URBAN Vili.—WORK ON CASTLE. 131 was then arrested, tried, sentenced, and decapitated on thePonte St. Angelo in 1600 or 1601. In 1623, Urban Vili. (Barberini) was elected. He com-pleted the fortifications of the Leonine City, and made ..con-siderable additions and improvements in the Castle, renew-ing its solid defences, adding the bastions, which still exist,extending out into the Tiber, and restricting the course ofthe river so as to prevent the inundations from which thispart of the city had hitherto suffered. With a portion ofthe bronze which he stripped from the roof of the Pantheon,lie also cast cannon and other implements of war, to defendthe Castle, as may be seen by the inscription on the porticoof the Pantheon. Yea, doubtless/ says the Jesuit Donato,alluding to the bees which are the device on the arms of theBarberini, bees not only make honey, but are also armedwith stings for the battle, like those who, from their loftystation, have showered down

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