The Count claimed she betrayed him and ran off with her priest paramour.
He found her and he killed her, her and her parents who abetted their crime.
The prosecutor insisted she was virtuous and fled a brutal husband.
He wad found guilty and the Pope rejected his appeal.
He was beheaded in Rome and his four accomplices, commoners, were hanged.
Had he convinced the Roman court of her infidelity, what would have happened?
Robert Browning.
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