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Excerpt from The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio Di Lucca: Being the Substance of His Examination Before the Fathers of the Inquisition, at Bologna, in Italy
Nquilition, and lodged her in a very handfome apartment feparate from the convent, on account of her fex; with two waiting-women to attend heizwith all refpeft, till we were better apprized of the truth of her quality. This obliged me to take another journey to Signor Gaudentio's houfe, to fecure his papers, with whatever elfe might contribute to further our difcovery. I found all things in the fame orderi left them; but being extremely fatigued, 1 fat down to the elegant collation that was left, and after a fmall tepali, went to bed in his houfe, to have the morning before us for fe curing his efiie�ls. I fealed up all the papers I could find, to examine them at-more leifure; took an inventory of all the moveables, that they might be refiored to him in cafe he was found innocent; and (cut for a proper officer to remain in the houfe, who was to be refponlible for every thing. There were two little cabinets of en 'rious workman (hip; one of them, as it ap eared, belonged to him, the other to the ?rauge lady; but being full of intricate rawers or tills, we took them both along with us. There and the papers we delivered to the head Inquifitors, not being 'willing to proceed in either of their examinations, till we had got all the light we 'could, to find out the truth, for that was all our aim; then we could tell what courfe to take with them. We placed two cunning lay-brothers, in the nature of fervants, for Signor Gaudentio, who were to inliuuate themfelves into his favour by their kind ofiices, compaflionating his misfortunes, and adviling him to difcover the whole truth, in the account of his life, quality, profellion, opinions, and, in fine, whatever articles he was to be interrogated on, to confefs ingenuou?y what he knew; that that was the only way to find favour at the hands of the Inquifitors; that they par doued almol't all faults on a {incere confellion, and an a?'uranae of amendment. I vilited him myl'elf leverai times before his examination, and gave him the fame ad vice and alfurauce; he promifed me faithfully he would, and feemed fo f'teady and. Confirmed in his own innocence, with fuch an agreeable, yet fincere way in his dif courl'e, as really furprized me, and caufed me already to be prejudiced in his fa, x our; adding with a fmile, that the billory of his life would admnnlter more caufe of wonder than indignation. Not to be too particular, the chief of the Inqurfition, with mylel'f alon with them, fet to the fcrutiny of his papers: we examined them with all the care imaginable, but could find nothing to ground any material accufa tion, except tome imperfect memoirs of the euftoms of a country and people unheard of to us, and I believe to all the world befide, with fome odd characters, or words, which had no affinity with any language or characters we ever faw. We difcovered he had a great knowledge in natural philofophy, with fome remarks that were very curious. There was, a rough draught of a map of a country, With towns, rivers.
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