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Events Births Deaths her execution.html">execution, was carried to the church.html">church of San Pietro in Montorio,
of the Stigmata and all the Franciscan monks in Rome; there,
be, in the church of San Giorgio di Velobre.
All Rome may be said to have been present at this tragedy, carriages,
The day was unfortunately so hot, and the sun so scorching, that many
even died during the night.html">night, owing to sunstroke from exposure during
Holy Cross, the brotherhood of San Marcello, by special licence of
condition of paying within the year two thousand five hundred Roman
may be found to-day recorded in their archives.
Having now seen the tomb, if you desire to form a more vivid
derived from a narrative, pay a visit to the Barberini Gallery, where
Beatrice, taken, some say the night before her execution, others
wearing a headdress composed of a turban with a lappet. The hair is
tears; a perfectly farmed nose surmounts an infantile mouth;
has destroyed the original fair complexion. The age.html">age of the subject
indicates a person below the middle height; the attributes are those
contour, straight nose, black eyebrows, and expression at the same
smile still seems to linger an the charming dimpled cheeks and
exquisitely framed by luxuriant curls falling from her forehead in
existence, we are obliged to gather an idea of their appearance from
history; they are thus described by the eye-witness of the closing
he appeared to be about twenty-six years of age.
Poor Bernardo was the image of his sister, so nearly resembling her,
people to suppose him to be Beatrice herself: he might be fourteen or
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