WERE HERETICS" EVER BURNED ALIVE AT ROME? A REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE ROMAN INQUISITION AGAINST FULGENTIO MANFREDI; TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BROUGHT FROM ITALY BY A FRENCH OFFICER, AND EDITED, WITH A PARALLEL ENGLISH VERSION, AND ILLUSTRATIVE ADDITIONS, BY THE REV. RICHARD GIBBINGS, M.A., RECTOR OF RAYMUNTERDONEY, IN THE DIOCESE OF RAPHOE. LONDON: JOHN PETHERAM, 94, HIGH HOLBORN. 110. l. 335. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS, &c. WERE HERETICS EVER BURNED ALIVE AT ROME? IN the Dublin Review for June, 1850', in an article attributed to Cardinal Wiseman, it was boldly declared to be a "FACT," that "the Roman Inquisition, that is to say, the tribunal which was immediately subject to the control and direction of the Popes themselves in their own city,-has never been known to order the execution of capital punishment." Is this a fact, or is the assertion false? An opportunity shall now be afforded of determining this question by means of one example of what was nothing extraordinary until the object aimed at the extinction of light-had been suffi |