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  • 1469: Andrea Viarani

    08/12/2023 2:18:30 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | August 12th, 2020 | Headsman
    The August 12, 1469 beheading of a Ferrara nobleman named Andrea Viarani is the subject of a chapter in the very fine volume The Art of Executing Well: Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy. This scholarly tome explores via six chapters with different authors and several translated texts the spiritual and ritual experience of execution, particularly as mediated by confraternities of lay comforters who worked to steady the condemned for their ordeal and — as they prayed — their salvation. Notably, The Art of Executing Well favors the reader with a 100-page translation of a Bolognese Comforters’ Manual and its...