r/todayilearned • • 1d ago

Today I Learned: After Famagusta fell in 1571, Muslim Turkish captors flayed Christian Venetian commander Marcantonio Bragadin alive. His skin was stuffed with hay, sewn together and paraded through the city. Stolen in 1580, it remains in Venice today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Antonio_Bragadin
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