http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/08/1845-italian-highwayman-witnessed-by-dickens/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:02:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/08/1845-italian-highwayman-witnessed-by-dickens/#comment-4535 ExecutedToday.com » 1796: Mastro Titta’s first execution of many Tue, 19 May 2009 12:58:36 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/08/1845-a-thief-witnessed-by-dickens/#comment-4535 [...] He often offered snuff to his victims and spoke briefly and quietly with them prior to the execution, likely ploys to ease the victim into his role in the spectacle. Dickens viewed one of Mastro Titta’s beheadings on 8 March 1845*, and, in his Pictures From Italy, he remarked on the callousness of the event. [...] [...] He often offered snuff to his victims and spoke briefly and quietly with them prior to the execution, likely ploys to ease the victim into his role in the spectacle. Dickens viewed one of Mastro Titta’s beheadings on 8 March 1845*, and, in his Pictures From Italy, he remarked on the callousness of the event. [...]

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