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In Japan, for example, torture was used from a very early date to extract confessions, and from the beginning of the Tokugawa period in the seventeenth century the Japanese seem to have used something very like the strappado .
The Medicis regained power in 1512 with the help of Spanish troops, and Machiavelli was deposed from his public office, imprisoned and tortured with the strappado (a technique recently revived in Guantanamo).
Well, we haven't electrocuted him, beaten him with poles or given him the strappado - but that can be remedied.
The strappado , also known as the pendulum, was one of the easiest and, therefore, one of the most common torture techniques.
It is believed that Niccolò Machiavelli was subjected to this form of strappado .
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