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Once I saw the Montone strike the Lupa just as they passed here; the crimson flashed out across his face, and in his pain he pulled his horse aside, and it fell heavily against the palings and threw him so that the horse of the Bruco coming on behind could not avoid going over him. They said it was terrible to see that livid weal across his mouth as he lay in his coffin." "He died then?" "Ma!
But daily, before he painted, Sandro knelt in a dark chapel in Santa Croce, while a blue-chinned priest said mass for the repose of Simonetta's soul. For a short time in her motley history, an old-clothesman, one Domenico he and his "Compagnia del Bruco," his Company of the Worm reigned over Siena and gave to her people a taste for blood. Massacre considered as one of the Fine Arts?
"The Bruco hoped to win," the priest said, "and the Oca's fantino might get a knife in his back if he were not taken care of." Already the crowd was dispersing. The victorious contrada had been given the painted standard of the Palio, and were bearing it in triumph to the parish church, where it would remain until the next Ferragosto.
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