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  2. Poena cullei - Wikipedia

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    Poena cullei (Latin, 'penalty of the sack') [1] under Roman law was a type of death penalty imposed on a subject who had been found guilty of parricide. The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack , with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water.

  3. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]

  4. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Italian term Literal translation Definition Campana: bell: A bell used in an orchestra; also campane "bells" Cornetto: little horn: An old woodwind instrument Fagotto: bundle: A bassoon, a woodwind instrument played with a double reed Orchestra: orchestra, orig. Greek orkesthai "dance" An ensemble of instruments Piano(forte) soft-loud: A ...

  5. Help:IPA/Italian - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Italian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Italian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  6. Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis - Wikipedia

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    The Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis (or veneficiis) [1] (The Cornelian Law against Murderers and Poisoners) was a Roman statute enacted by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 81 BC during his dictatorship to write laws and reconstitute the state (legibus scribundis et rei publicae constituendae) [2] which aimed at the punishment of murderers, poisoners, abortionists, human sacrifice, and malign ...

  7. Hell Opened to Christians - Wikipedia

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    Hell Opened to Christians was written by the Italian priest and author Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti. Pinamonti was born on December 27, 1632 [3] [4] in Pistoia to a family of noble origin. [1] In 1647, he entered the Society of Jesus. He was forced by illness to give up his studies, abandoning a teaching career for mission work in the Italian ...

  8. Damnatio ad bestias - Wikipedia

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    Gladiators in the circus arena, Zliten mosaic, 1st century AD The exact purpose of the early damnatio ad bestias is not known and might have been a religious sacrifice rather than a legal punishment, [2] especially in the regions where lions existed naturally and were revered by the population, such as Africa, India and other parts of Asia.

  9. Riocontra - Wikipedia

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    In spite of insufficient education and non-standard use of the language, Riocontra speakers have produced a rich lexical repertoire. The passage from the official language to Riocontra occurs as mentioned mainly through the inversion of the syllables, but also with the change of the last vowel and truncation and elision in the last vowel of the neologism formed.