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 Rh his life. Of these, one, Cardinal Petrucci, was strangled in the Castle of St. Angelo on the 6th June 1517; while Cardinals Saoli and Soderini were indeed degraded, and declared stripped of both active and passive voice in a Conclave—that is, of the power of either voting or being elected; but this sentence was cancelled before the Pope's demise tested its validity. Under Leo's successor Cardinal Soderini again stood convicted of conspiracy, and was imprisoned in the Castle of St. Angelo; but on the last day of the Pope's obsequies he was let out by the Sacred College, and gave his vote in Conclave for Clement by whom then he was restored to all the honours of his rank. But the ruling case on this head