It reads in the early modern treaties on capital punishment that the main purpose of the conforterias in Italian cities was to make sure that the condemned accepted his own death and accepted it in a state of grace. Only through this way would the soul stop in the transitory condition of Purgatory avoiding to sink into the infernal torments.
The School of San Fantin - the only secular brotherhood authorized by the Serenissima - was founded in the fifteenth century to give this spiritual comfort to those sentenced to death and for this reason it was also defined as the Good Death
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