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Poggio Bracciolini. "About the man who wounded Ridolfo (II da Varano di Camerino) with an arrow." Global Medieval Sourcebook.Transcription from Basel 1538 (Reprinted in Poggio Bracciolini, Scripta in editione Basilensi anno 1538 collata. Ed. Riccardo Fulbini. Turin: Bottega d'Erasmo, 1964.) .
De Quodam Qui Redolphum Sagittando Vulneravit | About the man who wounded Ridolfo (II da Varano di Camerino) with an arrow
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De Quodam Qui Redolphum Sagittando Vulneravit | About the man who wounded Ridolfo (II da Varano di Camerino) with an arrow
by Poggio Bracciolini
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Facetia LIV Joke 54
Viri nonnulli Camerinenses extra urbem exercitii causa sagittando tempus terebant. Some men from Camerino were passing the time outside of the city by practicing archery. Cum quispiam sagittam incautius emisisset, astantem procul Redolphum leviter vulneravit. When one of them fired an arrow carelessly, it happened to lightly wound Ridolfo, who was standing nearby. Capto illo, cum variae de poena inferenda sententiae dicerentur, et, ut quisque acerrime sentiret, ita se maxime Principi gratificaturum putaret, unus censuit manum illi esse amputandum, ne amplius arcu uteretur. The man was captured and different punishments were discussed, some thought it had to be very harsh so that it would be most pleasing to the prince, and one man even thought that the archer’s hand should be amputated so that he could never use a bow again. Redolphus liberum hominem dimitti iussit, dicens, illam futuram fuisse utilem sententiam, si id ante acceptum vulnus consilium dedisset. But Ridolfo ordered the archer to be set free and said that this would have been a useful punishment, if the man had given the advice before he was wounded. Plena prudentiae et humanitatis responsio. An answer full of wisdom and humanity.
Facetia LIV Joke 54
Viri nonnulli Camerinenses extra urbem exercitii causa sagittando tempus terebant. Some men from Camerino were passing the time outside of the city by practicing archery. Cum quispiam sagittam incautius emisisset, astantem procul Redolphum leviter vulneravit. When one of them fired an arrow carelessly, it happened to lightly wound Ridolfo, who was standing nearby. Capto illo, cum variae de poena inferenda sententiae dicerentur, et, ut quisque acerrime sentiret, ita se maxime Principi gratificaturum putaret, unus censuit manum illi esse amputandum, ne amplius arcu uteretur. The man was captured and different punishments were discussed, some thought it had to be very harsh so that it would be most pleasing to the prince, and one man even thought that the archer’s hand should be amputated so that he could never use a bow again. Redolphus liberum hominem dimitti iussit, dicens, illam futuram fuisse utilem sententiam, si id ante acceptum vulnus consilium dedisset. But Ridolfo ordered the archer to be set free and said that this would have been a useful punishment, if the man had given the advice before he was wounded. Plena prudentiae et humanitatis responsio. An answer full of wisdom and humanity.
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