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Short tour itinerary
SEGUI LE ORME - STEP BY STEP
29 - PALAZZO MANENTI
(Manenti
Palace)
This is another entrance of the palace point 17.
A
bad story Pietro di Rasiglia, nobleman from Nocera, was such a close friend of the family that he was allowed to marry one of their maids. Having the strong suspicion that his beautiful wife had had an affair with Nicolò Trinci, brother of Corrado Trinci, lord of Foligno, he decided to take his revenge. |
The corpses of the three men were thrown down from Nocera wall. This
happened in January the 11, 1421. Corrado discovered everything and, with
the help of Braccio da Montone, invaded Nocera in three days. When Pietro
understood that there was no hope left, he threw his wife from the city
wall and, arrived on the top of the highest tower, threw himself down.
Pietro’s friends surrended to Corrado, hoping him to be merciful. But he
was not: he tortured and killed them, and gave their corpses to the dogs.
Then he started to revenge on all the relatives and friends (even the
servants) of Pietro da Rasiglia and of the Manenti family. He chased them
in Nocera, Foligno, Rasiglia, Trevi and in other cities; he killed them
all, put their corpse on the back of 36 asses, and made the asses walk as
in a procession through the streets of Foligno. Finally he hung the
corpses to the main doors of the near castles. He did not even spare women
and children; he temporarily spared the pregnant women, just to kill them
later together with their infants. His revenge cost the life of 300
people; 54 were relatives of Pietro da Rasiglia. In Trevi his revenge did
not end with the murder of the members of the Manenti family: he invaded
the convent of Saint Peter from Bovara, chasing the friars and stealing
the convent goods. He justified this act by saying that the convent was
managed by a member of the Manenti family. To stop this massacre the Pope
Martino V entrusted Francesco Sforza to fight against Corrado and destroy
all the Trinci castles and fortresses. Clever and cruel, Corrado continued
to kill and lord it over the Trevani, until the Pope Eugenio IV, in 1434,
ordered him to be captured with his family and brought to the fortress of
Soriano, where he and all of his family members were killed. Since not
even one of his children survived, the name of the family died away; the
bastard children of the abbot Giacomo Trinci took the name of Dell’Abate,
or Degli Abati (which means of the
Abbot). |
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