Palazzo Benedetti a Santa Sofia, Venice

Some from this family, known for warriors and bishops, were part of old aristocracy; they supposedly immigrated to Venice before the 13th century from Acre in the orient.

Arrested for the crime were Giuseppe Righi, a merchant, Pietro a barber from Campo Sant'Angelo, Francesco Menegatti a sea-captain, Tomaso Carli, a friend of Righi, and Antonio and herbalist from Sant'Angelo, Simeone Maggiotto, and Girolamo Biriboccoli, both from Cannaregio, also a monk named Leone from the convent of San Giobbe, brother of the barber Pietro.

They were all sentenced on by June 26, 1658, The first two were sentenced to be led on foot from the prison near the ducal palace, to the scene of the crime; there to have their right hands cut off, and with the detached hands hung around their neck, to be dragged behind horses to the site between the columns in the Piazetta where they would be branded three times with a flaming rod, and all the while forced to proclaim their wickedness aloud.

Vincenzo, the last of the Benedetti name, was buried in San Zanipolo in the 2nd chapel on right, where a plaque reads:[1]Shudder visitor as you inspect this admirable heap/ of this deformed stone trophy/A wonder of Piety, Vincent Benedetti, here/ does not rest, but was ejected into a sad fate,/ until Christ brings acclamation to those in his Benediction/in the name of the lord who came to the Cross.

/Inhumanity betrayed the happy Vincent/The name Benedetti to a cruel world, to continue/ as unable because of murderers and robbers/whose nature made extinct this nobel family/ of a growing spirit of virtue, faith, and modesty/eternal examples of piety, with him relinquised the ideas and meditations of the male line/ that alway lives and stays in sons, for ever,/ Obey his memory, those who contemplate/ intemperate memories, in the year 1658/ July, age 61 year.The inscription is attributed to Giovanni Benedetto Perazzo, a dominical monk of the convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo: