"Can you tell me, my friend," I inquired of the carbineer, who seemed a good sort of a man, "why I am removed from the Inquisition to this castle? Is it better or worse, with respect to accommodation?"
"Pretty much the same," he replied. "As far as I can learn, it appears that you have been removed from the Inquisition, because the great wall that lately surrounded it is now destroyed, and the prison is not considered sufficiently secure. I believe too, that it has been deemed expedient to place you out of the way of the priests who are confined there. You are looked upon with great mistrust in consequence of your dealings about the Bible. You know it is prohibited in Rome."
I was now locked up in the remotest part of the fortress, la Gemella Seconda.
FOOTNOTES:
[101] Romans viii. 29.
[102] These walls were thrown down during the Republic, so that at present the Inquisition can be seen on every side.
[103] A third Edition of this work has been recently published in London, by the Religious Tract Society, for the benefit of the Italians in England.
[104] Vide Appendix. Reply to the Allocution of Pius IX., in the Consistory of Gaeta, 20th April, 1849, published at Rome during the last days of the Republic, and circulated there after the entry of the French troops.
[105] Mark x. 51.
[106] John v. 7.