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Updated: May 28, 2025
At the time of which I am speaking all this had happened a year ago, but the story was dug up against me, and dressed out in the attire of fiction, and thus formed part of those clouds which were to discharge their thunder upon me to my destruction. In the July of 1755 the hateful court gave Messer-Grande instructions to secure me, alive or dead.
My husband has received a letter from Messer-Grande ordering him to make a search for them; if he find them he will take them back to Venice, and if not he will return here, but he will be on the look-out for three days at least." "I am sorry for this accident, my dear madam, but I should not like to put you out, and indeed I should be glad to lie down immediately."
"Messer-Grande," she told me, "has entered my house forcibly, accompanied by a band of sbirri. He said he knew that a portmanteau had been landed there the evening before, which was quite true; but it belonged to Count S , and only contained linen and clothes. Messer-Grande, after inspecting it, went out without saying a word." He had also paid my room a visit.
I skewed him by writing where to go for my shirts, stockings, and clothes of all sorts, a bed, table, chair, the books which Messer-Grande had confiscated, paper, pens, and so forth. I had three sequins so I gave him one, and he went off.
The first effect of the podesta's protection was that the penitent was imprisoned, and he then wrote to the Tribunal to know what to do with him. The Tribunal told him to send Father Balbi in chains to Venice, and on his arrival Messer-Grande gave him over to the Tribunal, which put him once more under the Leads.
My husband has received a letter from Messer-Grande ordering him to make a search for them; if he find them he will take them back to Venice, and if not he will return here, but he will be on the look-out for three days at least." "I am sorry for this accident, my dear madam, but I should not like to put you out, and indeed I should be glad to lie down immediately."
On the other hand, Messer-Grande might have said that, having seen me get out of my bed, he was sure that I had no weapons about me, and thus both of them would have got out of trouble. The monk ended by begging me to send him my knife by Nicolas, on whom I might rely. The monk's thoughtlessness seemed to me almost incredible.
Those who were aware that I possessed these books took me for an expert magician, and I was not sorry to have such a reputation. Messer-Grande took also the books on the table by my bed, such as Petrarch, Ariosto, Horace. This spy, Manuzzi, had all the appearance of an honest man a very necessary qualification for his profession.
As I went down once more to the ball-room two pretty female dominos attacked me right and left, telling me that Messer-Grande was waiting for me outside. They then asked me for some snuff, and I gave them a box ornamented with an indecent picture. I had the impudence to touch the spring and shew it them, and after inspecting it they exclaimed,
Messer-Grande then made me over to the warden of The Leads, who stood by with an enormous bunch of keys, and accompanied by two guards, made me climb two short flights of stairs, at the top of which followed a passage and then another gallery, at the end of which he opened a door, and I found myself in a dirty garret, thirty-six feet long by twelve broad, badly lighted by a window high up in the roof.
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