“Superbo, avaro, traditor, bugiardo, Lussurioso, ingrato e pien d’inganni, Son Bonnaccorso di Lapo Giovanni.” [68] In one of these the Podestà, Fulchieri da Calvoli, cruelly tortured those of the Bianchi who fell into his hands, before they were beheaded in the courtyard. “Their flesh, yet living, sets he up to sale, Then like an aged beast, to slaughter dooms. Many of life he reaves, himself of worth And goodly estimation.” _Dante Purg._, Canto XIV, Cary’s trans. All instruments of torture found in these chambers were burnt in the courtyard by the orders of the Grand Duke Leopoldo when he abolished the Inquisition. [69] _Descrizione dei Delinquenti condannati a morte in Firenze._ Firenze, MDCCCI. [70] See _Archivio Storico Italiano, T. I._ Firenze. G. P. Vieusseux, Editore, 1842. [71] In the archives are the sentences pronounced by the various Signori which are too characteristic to omit. “13th Feb., 1529. Alessandro Corsini continues in his evil courses; a rebel he is, and a rebel he may remain; and that he should serve as an example to all, it is ordered, as he has no house which can be destroyed, that he be painted as a traitor on the palace of the Podestà, so that others may learn from him. “3rd March, 1529. In the name of God I judge that Taddeo Guiducci be condemned as a rebel, and all his goods be confiscated according to law, and as he has no house of his own in Florence which can be destroyed, he is to be painted on the palace of the Podestà by the side of Alessandro Corsini, and in the same manner as the said Alessandro. “10th March, 1529. As to the complaint against Pierfrancesco Ridolfi which to-day has come before us, I decide that, as a most virulent enemy of his city, and an enemy of our Holy liberty, as he has always been, he be condemned as a rebel, with all the pains and penalties pertaining unto rebels, as far as the law allows, and that, within fifteen days, he be painted hanging by one foot, alongside of Taddeo Guiducci, on the palace of the Podestà, as a traitor to his country.” [72] Opus cit. [73] See _Jahrbuch d. Preussischen Kunstsammlungen_, 1903. Heft. IV. (Fabriczy, Giuliano da Majano in Siena.) [74] Milan was famed for the construction of these “carrette,” which were much used there. [75] _Istoria di Firenze._ By the Marquess Gino Capponi. [76] _Storia d’Alessandro de’ Medici._ Abate Modesto Rastrelli. Firenze. MDCCLXXXI. [77] See _Miscellanea Fiorentina_. Anno I, No. 12, 1886. [78] See _Cronachette Storiche Fiorentine_. Pierfilippo Covoni. Firenze, 1894. [79] At the end of the XVIIIth century her tomb was still pointed out, and del Migliore says that before the vault was restored after it became the property of the Bracci family, the initials “G. A.” were visible on one of the stones. [80] More likely because it adjoins the chapel of the Misericodia. [81] _a Storia di Ginevra Amieri che fu sepolta viva in Firenze._ Pisa. Nistri.