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Updated: May 9, 2025
The banished having retired, Florence again returned to her old divisions; and in order to deprive the Cavalcanti of their authority, the people took from them the Stinche, a castle situated in the Val di Greve, and anciently belonging to the family.
They send us an army of starving men." "No, no! This man is one of the prisoners turned out of the Stinche. I know by the grey patch where the prison badge was." "Keep quiet! Lend a hand! Don't you see the brethren are going to lift him on the bier?" "It's likely he's alive enough if he could only look it. The soul may be inside him if it had only a drop of vernaccia to warm it."
While this was going on, Corso and Amerigo Donati, with a part of the people, broke open the stinche, or prisons; burnt the papers of the provost and of the public chamber; pillaged the houses of the rectors, and slew all who had held offices under the duke whom they could find.
And as those who were taken in it were the first who were put into the new prisons, the latter were, and still continue, named after it, the Stinche.
The feeling towards the old man was not so entirely friendly now it was quite certain that he was alive, but the respect inspired by Romola's presence caused the passing remarks to be made in a rather more subdued tone than before. "Ah, they gave him his morsel every day in the Stinche that's why he can't do so well without it. You and I, Cecco, know better what it is to go to bed fasting."
Giovanni Cavalcanti was a zealous admirer of Cosimo de' Medici; he composed his 'Chronicle' in the prison of the Stinche, where he was unjustly incarcerated for a debt to the Commune of Florence.
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