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Updated: September 16, 2025
It will be remembered what he had formerly suffered from his father; since that time he had married, and the close-fisted old man had left him, with his wife and children, to languish in poverty. Guerra's house was selected to meet in and concert matters. Giacomo hired a sbirro named Marzio, and Guerra a second named Olympio.
Here a jailer interrupted us in great anger; and after commenting on the gross improprieties committed by my neighbours, he turned towards me, not with the gravity of a sbirro, but the air of a master: "For shame, sir, for shame! to think of talking to men of this stamp! do you know, sir, that they are all robbers?"
Here the trial scene is prepared, and I introduce it by a burlesque hearing of several persons charged by the sbirro captain with offences against morality.
Do you mean to say that there was not a sbirro or a gendarme in the neighbourhood to-day nor yesterday?" "That is not so surprising," answered Valdarno, with a knowing look. "There would have been few tears in high quarters if Del Ferice had been killed yesterday; there will be few to-day over the death of poor Casalverde." "Bah!" ejaculated Astrardente.
For a few seconds the poor sufferer uttered no sound, but at last he gave vent to an irresistible yell. At a sign from the chief sbirro the punishment was stopped, and Bobi was released and allowed to rise. Conducting him to the door, the sbirro thrust him into the street, flung his blue gown after him, and advised him to beware of again rousing the wrath of Sidi Omar.
"Speak your own tongue, dog, else you shall smart for it," said the Minister of Marine, with increasing wrath. The poor interpreter to his Britannic Majesty's navy repeated his words in the Lingua Franca, but Omar, again interrupting him, ordered the sbirro to take him off and give him the bastinado.
At his back were the Pyramid Doctor, and the accursed Sbirro, whilst there was some little many-coloured object running in and out amongst their legs; this, I believe, was that little abortion of a Pitichinaccio.
"A sbirro had caught a lazzarone in the fact. "'What did you steal from that gentleman in black, who just went by? he demanded he. "'Nothing, your excellency, replied the lazzarone. A lazzarone always addresses a sbirro as eccellenza. "'I saw your hand in his pocket. "'His pocket was empty. "'What! Not a purse, a snuff-box, a handkerchief? "'Nothing, please your excellency. It was an author.
A priest came by, then a lawyer, then a poet; but the sbirro made no sign. At last there appeared a young officer, dressed in brilliant uniform, who passed gaily along, humming between his teeth a tune out of the last opera. The sbirro gave the signal. Up sprang the lazzarone and followed the officer. Both disappeared round a corner. Presently the lazzarone returned with his ransom in his hand.
Touching the sbirro on the shoulder, he pointed to a group under the shade of an archway, and said in a low tone "Go, fetch hither that scoundrel Blindi." The sbirro at once stepped towards the group, which consisted of two persons.
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