"You shall not find me slow to act if there is the need or the way." "So I had surmised," he said.

"Are you not that same Boccadoro, Fool of the Court of Pesaro, who donned the Lord Giovanni's armour and rode out to do battle in his stead ?" I answered him that I was that man.
"I have heard the tale," said he.

"Indeed, all Italy has heard it, and knows you for a man of steel, as strong and audacious as you are cunning and resourceful.

I know against what desperate odds you fought that day, and how you overcame this terrible Ramiro.

This it is that leads me to hope that in the service of your own ends you may become the instrument of my vengeance." "Unfold your project, man," I muttered, fiercely almost, in my burning eagerness.