Italian executioner of the Papal State, also known in Roman dialect as "er boja de Roma". His career as person in charge of executions of death sentences lasted 68 years and began at the age of 17, on March 22, 1796, until 1864 he reached the quota of 514 (in his notebook, Bugatti noted 516 names of executed but from the count are subtracted two condemned, one because shot and the other because hanged and quartered by the adjutant), for an average therefore of 7 annual sentences. He also operated under French rule, in which he performed 55 executions of the total. His services are in fact all noted in a list that goes up to August 17, 1864, when he was replaced by Vincenzo Balducci and Pope Pius IX granted him a pension, with a monthly annuity of 30 scudi. In Valentano, in the historical archive, the testimony of his first execution in the locality of Poggio delle Forche can be found, written in the first person, 'On March 28, 1797, I clubbed and squartai Valentano Marco Rossi, who had killed his uncle and his cousin to take revenge for the unequal distribution of a common inheritance'. The nickname given to Bugatti was then also extended to his successors, in some lands that were part of the Papal State, but in Rome in particular, the term 'Mastro Titta' is synonymous with executioner. During long periods of inactivity, he worked as an umbrella seller, also in Rome. The executioner lived in the Vatican city walls, on the right bank of the Tiber, in the Borgo district, at number 2 of Vicolo del Campanile. He was naturally frowned upon by his fellow citizens; so much so that he was forbidden, as a precaution, to go to the city center, on the other side of the Tiber (hence the proverb 'Boia nun pass Ponte', meaning everyone is in their own environment'). But since in Rome the public executions decreed by the pope, especially the exemplary ones, did not take place in the papal village but on the other bank of the Tiber in Piazza del Popolo or Campo de 'Fiori or in the Piazza del Velabro (where Monicelli set the execution of the brigand Don Bastiano in the film 'Il marchese del Grillo') with the exception of the prohibition, who Bugatti had to cross the Ponte Sant'Angelo to go and lend his services. This fact gave rise to the other Roman idiom, 'Mastro Titta passes the bridge', meaning that the execution of a death sentence was scheduled that day. On May 19, 1817, George Gordon Byron was in Piazza del Popolo while three convicts (Giovanni Francesco Trani, Felice Rocchi and Felice De Simoni) were beheaded, the poet described this experience in a letter addressed to his publisher John Murray. The English writer Charles Dickens, during the journey he made in Italy between July 1844 and June of the following year, while he was passing through Rome, on Saturday 8 March 1845, witnessed an execution in via de Cerchi carried out by Bugatti, who commented in his book 'Letters from Italy'. The scarlet cloak that Mastro Titta wore during the executions is kept in the Criminological Museum of Rome.