Word: guicciardini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm." Retorted Benoist: "It is hard, Monsieur le President, after eight years, to remember these things and to see these men still alive before me." Benoist did not have long to wait. Last week the court sentenced 15 of the accused to death, including a rubber-hose expert, Georges Guicciardini and his son Adrien; three, including another son, null were sentenced to hard labor for life. Stenographer Denise Delfau (who had coolly taken down the testimony of the tortured as they writhed) got 20 years' hard labor...
Paradise, Canto XXVII, wherein St. Peter states that his successor (Boniface VIII) has turned the Church into a sewer choked with blood. He also quoted from Guicciardini, Carducci and other poets to show that "during 20 centuries, free-thinking men have often had occasion to think of Popes as guilty of other men's blood." Cried he: "So, do you want to send Dante to jail?" After 50 minutes' recess, the court found Laura Diaz guilty, sentenced her to eight months' imprisonment, suspended the sentence on a surety of good conduct...
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