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Updated on Saturday, 8May2021-11: 12

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At dawn on May 19, 1618.

A mob travels the streets of Venice with torches, looking for Francisco de Quevedo to kill him

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He is accused of being the instigator of a failed insurrection against the Serenissima government that intended to open the city to an invasion led by the viceroy of Naples, the Duke of Osuna.

In front of the crowd, a man shouts expletives in the Venetian dialect.

It is Quevedo himself, disguised and hiding his face so as not to be recognized.

Shortly after

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