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Updated: June 17, 2025
Upon the nobles Bentivogli could not count less than ever since the cold-blooded murder of the Marescotti; but in the burghers' adherence he deemed himself secure, and indeed on September 17 he had some testimony of it. On that date the fortnight's grace expiring the brief was again read to the Reggimento; but it was impossible to adopt any resolution.
"Count Marescotti," he continues, a solemn tone in his voice as he slowly pronounces the words, raising his head at the same time, and gazing fixedly into the other's face Count Marescotti, "I am come here to propose a marriage between you and Enrica Guinigi.
Here Baldassare rose and leaned over from behind. "I went up the Guinigi Tower with the party," he ventured to say. "There were four of us. The Cavaliere Trenta told me in the street just before that it was all right, and that the lady had agreed to marry Count Marescotti. There can be no secret about it now that every one knows it.
Now the pope " Trenta did not this time attempt to correct Marescotti "the pope is theoretically of no nation, but in reality he is of all nations; and he is surrounded by a court of celibate priests, also without nation. Observe, cavaliere this absolute dominion is attained by celibates only men with no family ties no household influences."
The precepts of Savonarola did, indeed, afford him infinite consolation; they were to him a via media between Protestant latitude and dogmatic belief. Savonarola had died at the stake for practising and for teaching them; Marescotti declared, with characteristic enthusiasm, that he was ready to do likewise.
As an instalment, on account of that debt, Vitelli had already put to death Pietro da Marciano the brother of Count Rinuccio da Marciano when this gentleman fell into his hands at Medicina. Two days before the treaty was signed, Bentivogli had seized four members of the powerful House of Marescotti.
She was debating with herself what Trenta could possibly mean by his extraordinary conduct, twice repeated. "You had better retire now," she said to Enrica, with an expression of hostility her niece knew too well. "You have listened to quite enough folly for one night. Men are flatterers." "Not I! not I!" cried Marescotti. "I never say any thing but what I mean."
While he is speaking, Trenta had mentally decided that Marescotti was the most impracticable man he had ever encountered in the various phases of his court career. "A fugitive," he repeats, almost with a sneer. "No, no, count, this will not do with me." The cavaliere pauses and clears his throat.
Count Marescotti raved so about the Signorina Enrica, that he nearly jumped over the parapet." "Better for her if you had helped him over," muttered Orazio, with a sarcastic stare. "The sonnet would not then have been written." But Baldassare, conscious that he had intelligence that would make him welcome, stood his ground. "You do not seem to know what has happened," he continued.
You can see its low, marshy shores fringed by beauteous woodlands, but without a single dwelling." Enrica, in a fit of abstraction, leaned over the parapet. Her eyes were riveted upon the city beneath. Marescotti followed her eyes. "Yes," said he, "there is Lucca;" and as he spoke he glanced inquiringly at her, and the tones of his clear, melodious voice grew soft and tender.
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