| | Quantum ad poenas DÆmonialitatis, nulla lex civilis, aut canonica, quam legerim, reperitur, quÆ poenam sanciat contra crimen hujusmodi. Tamen, quia crimen hoc supponit pactum, ac societatem cum DÆmone, ac apostasiam a fide, ultra veneficia, atque alia infinita propemodum damna, quÆ a Maleficis inferuntur, regulariter, extra Italiam, suspendio et incendio punitur. In Italia autem, rarissime traduntur hujusmodi Malefici ab Inquisitoribus CuriÆ sÆculari. | As regards the penalties applicable to Demoniality, there is no law that I know of, either civil or canonical, which inflicts a punishment for a crime of that kind. Since, however, such a crime implies a compact and fellowship with the Demon, and apostasy of the faith, not to speak of the malefices and other almost numberless outrages perpetrated by Sorcerers, as a rule it is punished, out of Italy, by the gallows and the stake. But, in Italy, it is but very seldom that offenders of that kind are delivered up by the Inquisitors to the secular power. | | Decoration |
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