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Updated: May 12, 2025
And in that moment Galeotto wrenched his victim's head still farther back, laying entirely bare the long brown throat, across which he swiftly drew his dagger. Copallati screamed and covered his face with his hands; Sforza-Fogliani, white to the lips, looked on like a man entranced.
And now from below there rose such a din of steel on steel, of shouts and screams and curses, that it behoved us to make haste. Bidding us follow him, Galeotto flung open the door. At table sat Farnese with two of his gentlemen, one of whom was the Marquis Sforza-Fogliani, the other a doctor of canon law named Copallati. Alarm was already written on their faces. At sight of Galeotto "Ah!
And before that ferocious aspect and those naked weapons Sforza-Fogliani stood checked and intimidated. I too had drawn my poniard, determined that Farnese should fall to my steel in settlement of the score that lay between us.
The Swiss garrison taken by surprise at table, as was planned, had been disarmed and all were safe and impotent under lock and bolt. The guards at the gate had been cut down, and we were entirely masters of the place. Sforza-Fogliani, Copallati, and the two servants were fetched from the Duke's chamber and taken away to be locked up in another room until the business should be ended.
But Sforza-Fogliani, a man of some spirit for all his effeminate appearance, leapt to his feet and set a hand to his weapons. Instantly Confalonieri's sword flashed from its sheath. He had passed his dagger into his left hand. "On your life, my Lord Marquis, do not meddle here," he warned him in a voice that was like a trumpet-call.
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