1827 Giuseppe Valadier (1762/1839) for Leo XII Sermattei (1823/29)
as PRISON for young minors who were confined in forty cells
It was no
longer used as a prison since 1854 for its limited capacity and the young prisoners
were transferred to the former Monastery of S. Balbina
Museo
Criminologico
Museum
of Criminality
Open since
1975
Renovated
in 1994 after fifteen years of closure
On display
there are tools with which crimes were carried out and also instruments of pain
and torture, including:
Infamous “Iron
Maiden”
“Coat of
Mastro Titta” the notorious Roman executioner
“Guillotine
of Castel Sant'Angelo” used for the first time in 1810 during the Napoleonic
domination. Only in the first three years it cut as many as 56 heads. It was
also used by the Papal State from 1816. The last execution by guillotine at the
behest of the Pope took place in 1870 in Palestrina
“Axe for
decapitation” found near Castel Sant'Angelo
“Sword of
Justice” probably the one that beheaded the poor Beatrice
Cenci in 1599
Bodies of
evidence of some famous robberies in Italy after World War Two
Macabre
skeleton of a woman of about 30 years of age, who lived in the sixteenth
century, found in 1933 in a cell tower in Poggio Catino in the province of
Rieti. The identity of the woman is unknown but she was bound hand and foot and
probably died of starvation
“Brain and
skull of Giovanni Passannante” author in 1878 of a failed assassination attempt
on the King of Italy Umberto I
“Cage of
Milazzo” found in 1928 in the castle of Milazzo in Sicily with skeleton
probably of the British soldier Andrew Leonard of 25 years of age. In 1806,
during the Napoleonic wars, he was probably condemned for desertion to the
cutting of hands and feet and he was exhibited in the cage
“Objects
which belonged to the bandit Giuliano” killed in Sicily in 1950
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