ferocemente

Vatican, the Virgin is an old beggar-woman, the two Maries are fish-wives, in "maudlin sorrow," and St. Peter and St. John, a couple of bravoes, burying a murdered traveller: _dipinse ferocemente sempre perche feroce era il suo carrattere_, says his biographer; an observation, by the way, in support of my hypothesis.

The Diary of an Ennuyée 1827