Excerpt from My Prisons: Memoirs of Silvio Pellico of Saluzzo ON Friday the 18th of October, 1820, I was arrested at Milan, and carried to the prison of Santa Margherita. It was three o'clock in the afternoon. I was immediately subjected to a long examination, which was continued through several days. But of this I shall say nothing. Like a lover ill-treated by his mistress, and manfully resolved to keep himself aloof from her, I shall leave politics where they are, and speak of other things. At nine in the evening of that miserable F ri day, the notary consigned me to the gaoler, who conducted me to the room destined for me. He civilly requested me to give up to him (to be restored in due time) my watch, my money, and every thing else that I had in my pockets, and respectfully wished me a good night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.