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Excerpt from The Law and Practice of the Church of Rome in Cases of Heresy: A Summary of the Treatise on Heresy
Andrea Brusciotti for so many of his volumes De Haeresi, and sixty scudi as accruing from the sale of the said treatise1 The references given to the work in the following pages are to the (first) edition of 1616, printed at Rome, and from a copy which appears to have belonged to the College of St. Bonaventura in that city. Of its author, Pope Urban VIII. Was ac customed to say, Buomz farz'na, ma calm/o sacco, for the moral character of F arinacci was in strange con trast with his professional one. To the general reader he is chie?y known as the somewhat unscrupulous advocate of Beatrice Cenci, and as the suggester of the horrible charge against her murdered father, which, as Signor Bertolotti has proved in his admir able and exhaustive treatise (francesco Cenci e la sua Famiglia had not the slightest foundation in fact. Yet on the mere insinuation, which opens the defence of Farinacci, has been-founded the grandest though the most unhistoric tragedy of our age.
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