{"id":920,"date":"2022-05-03T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palazzoprigionivenezia.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T10:04:19","slug":"cheba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palazzoprigionivenezia.com\/en\/cheba\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ch\u00e8ba: the suspended wooden or iron cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is the Ch\u00e8ba?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Ch\u00e8ba<\/strong> was a particular <strong>instrument of torture<\/strong> used in the <strong>Republic of Venice.<\/strong> &nbsp;A&nbsp;<strong>wooden<\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>iron cage<\/strong>&nbsp;suspended at a certain height from the ground, within which the condemned was locked. It could be attached to a chain hanging from a pole coming out of the wall of a building, or leaning directly against its masonry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the&nbsp;<strong>period of the sentence<\/strong>, which varied according to the crime committed, the prisoner could feed himself through a string with which he could drag bread and water to drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Where does the term Ch\u00e8ba come from?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The term, coming from the Venetian dialect, in Italian means&nbsp;<strong>cage.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was primarily designed to punish clergymen guilty of sodomy, murder, forgery and blasphemy, and remained in use until the late&nbsp;<strong>15th century<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is said that this sentence was imposed on&nbsp;<strong>24 dicembre&nbsp;1391<\/strong>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong>Jacopo Tanto<\/strong>, parroco della&nbsp;chiesa di san Maurizio, che aveva ucciso un altro prete. In quell\u2019occasione la pena fu a vita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A ch\u00e8ba (once) at the bell tower of San Marco<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For a couple of centuries&nbsp;<strong>the bell tower of San Marco<\/strong>&nbsp;housed a ch\u00e8ba, probably built of wood and strengthened with iron, and hung with chains or a rope to a beam that protruded from a hole in the middle of the brick barrel of the bell tower, above the bakers' shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>cage.&nbsp;<\/strong>was removed in the sixteenth century after welcoming its last guest, the priest Francis of San Polo, who had blasphemed for the adverse luck to the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The prisons of Palazzo delle Prigioni in Venice<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Palazzo delle Prigioni<\/strong> offers the opportunity to view the instruments of torture, prisons and period clothes still today, as well as learn about the <strong>stories and legends of a distant Venice. <\/strong>A piece of history witnessing the <strong>death and torture machines<\/strong> once used as instruments of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/palazzoprigionivenezia.com\/en\/visita-le-prigioni-di-piazza-san-marco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visit Palazzo delle Prigioni<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cos\u2019\u00e8 il Ch\u00e8ba? Il Ch\u00e8ba era un particolare strumento di tortura utilizzato nella Repubblica di Venezia. &nbsp;Una&nbsp;gabbia in legno&nbsp;o&nbsp;in ferro sospesa&nbsp;a una certa altezza da terra, entro la quale veniva rinchiuso il condannato. Essa poteva essere agganciata a una catena pendente da un palo fuoriuscente dal muro di un edificio, oppure addossata direttamente alla sua [&#8230;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strumenti-giustizia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cos\u2019\u00e8 il Ch\u00e8ba? 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