Cornelio Da Montalcino was a

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friar who had embraced

Judaism Judaism ( he, ''Yahăḏūṯ'') is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in t ...

, and was

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on the Campo dei Fiori in

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, in 1554.

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