Editing Lucilio Vanini (section)

===Final year (1618–1619)===
In the following months, a mysterious Italian, with a strange name (Pompeo Uciglio<ref name="Galileo Project" />) and in possession of great knowledge but an uncertain past, appeared in some cities of [[Guyenne]], then the [[Languedoc]] and finally [[Toulouse]]. Duke [[Henri II de Montmorency]], protector of ''esprits forts'' of the time, was the governor of this region and seemed to grant protection to the fugitive, who still continued to keep carefully hidden.

The presence of this mysterious character in Toulouse did not however pass unnoticed and attracted the suspicions of the authorities. In August 1618 he was apprehended and interrogated. In February 1619, the [[Parlement of Toulouse]] found him guilty of atheism and blasphemy and, in accordance with the regulations of the time, his tongue was cut out, he was strangled and his body was burned. After the execution it emerged that the stranger was in fact Vanini.