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title: BURNING OF THE ''PIEDMONT EASTER''

subject date: 2004-02-09

caption: WALDENSIANS Waldensian women burned at the stake in 1655. Watercolor engraving from the ''General History of the Evangelical Churches of Piedmont or of the Waldensian Valleys'' (1669) by Giovanni Léger (1615 - 1670) which describes the massacres carried out during the ''Piedmont Easters'', massacres of thousands of Waldensians by Carlo Emanuele di Simiana, Marquis of Pianezza (1608 - 1677), minister of Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy (1634 - 1675) which marked the beginning of the Savoy-Waldensian wars. Colored engraving, Italy 17th century.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 46497

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XVII

image epoch: Seicento

licence: RM

subject century: XVII

subject epoch: Seicento

technique: Incisione colorata

id: 5998

file name: FSNgilardi_46497.jpg

keywords

WaldensiansWomenfireexecutionreligious persecutionexterminationmassacrestakePiedmontSavoy-Waldensian warsPropaganda FideHeresyreligionCatholicismflamesfiretorture