becchino's

Updated: September 12, 2025

It was a large deep and circular space, like the bottom of an exhausted well. In niches cut into the walls of earth around, lay, duly coffined, those who had been the earliest victims of the plague, when the Becchino's market was not yet glutted, and priest followed, and friend mourned the dead. But on the floor below, there was the loathsome horror!

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes