Posted on 08/21/2022 9:18:39 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1497, five Florentines were beheaded for a seditious conspiracy, headlined by the scion of one of the city’s leading families.
Our scene is the Italian city-state of Florence, during the 20-year intrregnum with the Medici family out of power. Lorenzo the Magnificent had died in 1492; his much less magnificent son and successor Piero the Unfortunate was expelled in 1494. For the time being the Dominican cleric Savonarola holds sway; after his fall a few months hence, it would briefly be Machiavelli’s humanist republic.
For these years the Medici schemed from exile, and Florentines guarded warily against their prospective restoration … the circumstance that will bring five heads to the block here. Earlier that same month of August 1497, the Florentine apothecary Luca Landucci noted the arrest of a man who “when flogged … confessed to a certain plot with Piero de’ Medici, and accused many, who were sent for and detained n the Palagio and the Bargello, and put to the rack. Amongst these were Lorenzo Tornabuoni, Gianozzo Pucci, Bernardo Del Nero, Niccolo Ridolfi, and others who fled.”
Landucci’s diary records the speedy progress of this investigation....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Sounds like it didn’t turn out well for “Turnoutwell” - which is what Tornabuoni means in Italian.
works better than water boarding, doncha think???
minga, I want my head back!!
Remember, it’s not water boarding if you use diesel.
We’re not doing enough to maintain the rate of executions, unless you count gangland shooting and Islamists.
Newly elected MAGA Republicans should study this story…and emulate.
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