...After narrating Donato Guarnieri’s complex extradition to Bologna, followed by his cousin, Ottavio Agosti, who worked with jailers and lawyers to improve Guarnieri’s solitary confinement in “Le Segrete,” this chapter describes Guarnieri’s encounters with Giandomenico Rossi. The prosecutor promptly...

... delicate negotiations with Venice for Donato Guarnieri’s extradition to the Papal States (a highly irregular procedure), Guarnieri’s cousin, Ottavio Agosti, arrived in Venice to help him. Agosti’s efforts shed light on the realities of seventeenth-century incarceration in Italy. Feast of San Bruno of Segni...