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Updated: June 21, 2025
Lapo Cercamorte's blood-smeared visage turned business-like. Before grasping his sword, he bent to rub his palms on the grit of the pavement. While he was stooping, young Foresto unsheathed his dagger, made a catlike step, and stabbed at his master's neck. But quicker than Foresto was Madonna Gemma, who, with a deer's leap, imprisoned his arms from behind.
He found the family at bay in their hall, the father and his three sons naked except for the shirts of mail that they had hastily slipped on. Behind these four huddled the Grangioia women and children, for the most part pallid from fury rather than from fear, silently awaiting the end. However, Cercamorte's purpose was not to destroy this clan, but to force it into submission to his marquis.
Old one-eyed Baldo, Cercamorte's lieutenant, voiced the general sentiment when he muttered into his cup: "This house has become a tomb, and I have a feeling that presently there may be corpses in it." "She has the evil eye," another assented. Furtively making horns with their fingers, they looked up askance toward the dais, at her pale young beauty glimmering through rays of dusty sunshine.
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