Note Note 25 — Front matter (continued 7)
Reading edition
25. "To keep to this home of Pietro ... as a prison," Domus pro Carcere (p. 159). For a month after the sentence against Caponsacchi, Pompilia was kept prisoner in the refuge called the Scalette—a provision for her safekeeping, not a punishment. On October 12, she was permitted to give bond to keep the home of her foster parents, the Comparini, as a prison, Domus pro carcere, sentence against her being suspended.