Chapter 17
It is a precise priestly duty to redeem the soul of the condemned person even if his body cannot be redeemed.
At the end of the ceremony in Piazza del Governo, the Cardinal had not deigned at all to attend the banquet, but had incited his niece and the other authorities who accompanied him to move to Piazza della Morte. Father Ignazio Amici knew very well that the Baldeschi would not want to miss the arrival of the condemned to death for anything in the world. While the quartet made up of the Cardinal, Lucia Baldeschi, Judge Uberti and the lawyer Honorati was moving at a fast pace towards Porta della Rocca, he had headed towards the Torre di Mezzogiorno to meet the condemned and try to bring them religious comfort before their execution. Trying to confess the guilty and give t
