Dictionary of Heretics, Dissidents, and Inquisitors in the Mediterranean World
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The penalty of perpetual imprisonment was very common in the sentences of inquisitorial tribunals. Not infrequently, however, the condemned was not kept in prison but was allowed to serve the sentence in a specific locality (usually his or her place of origin), with the obligation not to leave it and to wear the abitello. Although formally it indicated lifelong detention, the average duration of this penalty was three to four years, after which the condemned regained full freedom. If, however, he relapsed into heresy, he was considered a relapso and thus liable to capital punishment.
Bibliography
- Giovanni Romeo, L’Inquisizione nell’Italia moderna, Laterza, Rome-Bari 2002.
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invidia inter dum contemptim in Tartara taetra
invidia quoniam ceu fulmine summa vaporant
plerumque et quae sunt aliis magis edita cumque
[Lucretius, "De rerum natura", lib. V]