The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 60
of Venice. It was also the anteroom of the Councilof Ten, the two halls being side by side. A chill came over all of us as we stood in the Hall of the Councilof Ten, and looked at the long table surrounded with the original chairsin which the inquisitors used to sit and condemn to death many of… … VENETIAN PRISONS. 39 inquisitors might order, andfinally put to death. And deathwas not always decreed tothem in merciful ways ; theywere imprisoned in the dun-geons in the basement of thepalace, and starved and de-prived of light and air untildeath came as a happy releasefrom suffering. We were…
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