Book Title: Historia delle sante vergini Romane con varie annotationi e con alcune vite brevi de' santi parenti loro : e de' gloriosi martiri papia e mauro soldati Romani opera / de Antonio Gallonio Romano, prete della Congregatione dell' Oratorio

Author: Gallonio, Antonio, d. 1605

Image Title: Racking and Torture of Martyrs

Description: Two figures are tortured on the rack, a mechanism that stretched victims’ bodies until death.

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