Chapter 5
Remember, man, that dust you are and dust you will return!
(Genesis 3:19)
The Cardinal pointed out the faithful gathered in the church, pointing his inquisitor finger and staring, one after another, at some faces in the front rows.
«Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris!», and was capable of making anyone who met his eyes feel guilty, even if he had never done anything wrong in his life.
On Sunday morning, ten days after the brutal and cowardly attack by the enemy armies, taking advantage of the peace of which Cardinal Baldeschi himself had been the creator, the bodies of the Jesi’s inhabitants who had fallen in the streets, in the squares and in their homes were recovered and placed, covered with white cloths, on the naked floor of the church of St. Floria
