On September 27, 1567, a session of the Holy Office was held at S. Maria sopra Minerva.  Seventeen heretics were condemned.  Fifteen of these were sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, the galleys for life, fines, or temporary imprisonment, according to the nature of their offenses.  Two were reserved for capital punishment—­namely, Carnesecchi and a friar from Cividale di Belluno.  They were beheaded and burned upon the bridge of S. Angelo on October 4.  On May 28, 1569, there was an Act of the Inquisition at the Minerva, twenty Cardinals attending.  Four impenitent heretics were condemned to the stake.  Ten penitents were sentenced to various punishments of less severity.  On August 2, 1578, occurred a singular scandal touching some Spaniards and Portuguese of evil manners, all of whom were burned with the exception of those who contrived to escape in time.  On August 5, 1581, an English Protestant was burned for grossly insulting the Host.  On February 20, 1582, after an Act of the Inquisition in due form, seventeen heretics were sentenced, three to death, and the rest to imprisonment, etc.  We must bear in mind that Mutinelli, who published the extracts from the Venetian dispatches which contain these details, does not profess to aim at completeness.  Gaps of several years occur between the documents of one envoy and those of his successor.  Nor does it appear that the writers themselves took notice of more than solemn and ceremonial proceedings, in which the Acts of the Inquisition were published with Pontifical and Curial pomp.[101] Still, when these considerations have been weighed, it will appear that the victims of the Inquisition, in Rome, could be counted, not by hundreds, but by units.  After illustrious examples, like those of Aonio Paleario, Pietro Carnesecchi, Giordano Bruno, who were burned for Protestant or Atheistical opinions, the names of distinguished sufferers are few.  Wary heretics, a Celio Secundo Curio, a Galeazzo Caracciolo, a Bernardino Ochino, a Pietro Martire Vermigli, a Pietro Paolo Vergerio, a Lelio Socino, escaped betimes to Switzerland, and carried on their warfare with the Church by means of writings.[102] Others, tainted with heresy, like Marco Antonio Flaminio, managed to satisfy the Inquisition by timely concessions.  The Protestant Churches, which had sprung up in Venice, Lucca, Modena, Ferrara, Faenza, Vicenza, Bologna, Naples, and Siena, were easily dispersed.[103] Their pastors fled or submitted.  The flocks conformed to Catholic orthodoxy.  Only in a few cases was extreme rigor displayed.  A memorable massacre took place in the year 1561 in Calabria within the province of Cosenza.[104] Here at the end of the fourteenth century a colony of Waldensians had settled in some villages upon the coast.  They preserved their peculiar beliefs and ritual, and after three centuries numbered about 4000 souls.  Nearly the whole of these, it seems, were exterminated by sword, fire, famine, torture, noisome imprisonment, and hurling from the summits of high