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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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    Italian profanity (bestemmia, pl. bestemmie, when referred to religious topics; parolaccia, pl. parolacce, when not) are profanities that are blasphemous or inflammatory in the Italian language. 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 ...

  4. Category:Capital punishment in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    6 languages. العربية ... Poena cullei This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 03:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

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  6. 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 ...

  7. Talk:Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    The meaning anyway can may differ in different parts of Italy. to sum up sti cazzi=I don't give a damn; sto cazzo=wow; bye ivan (to contact me: ivanbcn on wikipedia italia, please no "parolacce") right, but it depends on the region. In some places, the two meanings are equivalently used both for the singular and plural form. -Sal-

  8. Pope used vulgar Italian word to refer to LGBT people ...

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    Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests ...

  9. 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 ...