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Updated: June 26, 2025
Now did you, or did you not report that my sister Selvaggia touched your lips with a coal and set you off singing?" Cino, with folded arms, bent his head in assent: "I have said it, Messere." "Good! Now, such singing, though it is not to her taste, might be very much to ours. In fact we have come to hear it, and that you might be robbed of all excuse, we have brought the key with us.
When the winter came, the hardship of this mountain life commenced; the winds grew too keen, and the young girl soon began to show the effects of the want and misery to which she was exposed. Finally, the end came; and there Cino and the parents, grieving, laid her to her rest, in a sheltered valley.
She endured very well what she took to be the vacancy of confusion in a shy recluse. "Well, Messer Cino, what will you do?" said she, bubbling with mischief. "Oh, Madonna, can you ask?" he replied, and clasped his hands. "But you see that I do ask." "I would stop here all the day if I might," said Messer Cino, with a look by no means vacant.
Here, under the great escutcheon of the Vergiolesi, Cino delivered his missive. The porter took it with a bow so gracious that the poet was bold to ask whether the Lady Selvaggia was actually within. "Yes, surely, Messere," said the man, "and moreover in the kitchen with the cookmaids. For there is a cake-making on hand, and she is never far away from that business."
There is a vast difference between us, and it lies in this, that you and the like of you are word-mongers, phrasers, heart-strokers; whereas we, Master Cino, are, in Scripture language, doers of the word, rounding our phrases with iron, and putting in full-stops with the point when they are needed. And we do not stroke girls' hearts, Cino, but as often as not break men's heads."
Finally, the parents of Ricciarda were banished from Pistoja by the Neri, and in their flight they took refuge in a small fortress perched near the summit of the Apennines, where they were joined by Cino, who had determined to share their fortunes.
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