Member of the Brotherhood of Death in Venice, 1878. They accompanied those sentenced to death to execution and buried them. One of the seven works of corporal mercy. After Cesare Vecellio (1530-1601) in "De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diversi parti del mondoi". Venice, 1590. From "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance" by Paul Lacroix, Paris, 1878.
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