What was the name of the damp, unhealthy prisons on the ground floor of the Ducal Palace in 18th-century Venice?

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The Pozzi. "The prisons of Venice were found inside the Doge's Palace. The most inhospitable were situated on the ground floor, and came to be known as the Pozzi (or 'wells') - they were 18 cells – dark and lined with wood, and connected by bleak, murky corridors. Here, the living conditions were terrible: under the wooden tables lurked every type of insect, food was scarce and inedible, the air suffocating, and the environment overcrowded." http://www.italyguides.it/us/venice_italy/doge_s_palace/prisons.htm Dec 01 08, 10:07 PM