Chapter 11
We establish and order that, in order to defend the rights of the Municipality and the Citizens, a good and experienced lawyer should be elected.
(Codes of the Municipality of Jesi - XV century)
In the Council Chamber, Cardinal Baldeschi and Judge Uberti were not able to hide their mutual dislike of each other, which was kept in check during the public hearings of the trial which went on for over a month, from the end of June to the beginning of August in the year of the Lord 1517.
«You must condemn both Franciolini and the dirty Jew to death. They are two villains. They plotted behind our backs, they paid the enemy to put the city at his mercy!», growled the Cardinal.
Codes in hand, the Judge responded in a calm but firm voice.
«We have no certain evidence, neither agains
