Scaffold and stage : comforting rituals and dramatic traditions in late medieval and Renaissance Italy - Kathleen Falvey -- - Comforting with song : using laude to assist condemned prisoners - Pamela Gravestock -- - Mirror of a condemned : the religious poems of Andrea Viarani - Alfredo Troiano -- - In your face : paintings for the condemned in Renaissance Italy - Massimo Ferretti -- - Consolation or condemnation : the debates on withholding sacraments from prisoners - Adriano Prosperi -- - Theory into practice : executions, comforting, and comforters in Renaissance Italy - Nicholas Terpstra -- - The Bologna Comforters' manual - Comforting by the books : editorial notes on the Bologna Comforters' manual - Nicholas Terpstra - Book 1 - trans. Sheila Das - Book 2 - trans. Sheila Das - Book 3, Laude and prayers - trans. Sheila Das and Nicholas Terpstra - Book 4, Authorities - Nicholas Terpstra -- - Luca della Robbia's narrative on the execution of Pietro Paolo Boscoli and Agostino Capponi - Alison Knowles Frazier -- - Public execution in popular verse : the poems of Giulio Cesare Croce - Meryl Bailey