Many of the original brotherhood had fallen, on the battle-field, on the glacis, or in the dungeon.

All present, save the youthfuller Carlo, had suffered.
Imprisonment and exile marked the Chief.

Ugo Corte, of Bergamo, had seen his family swept away by the executioner and pecuniary penalties.

Thick scars of wounds covered the body and disfigured the face of Giulio Bandinelli.

Agostino had crawled but half-a-year previously out of his Piedmontese cell, and Marco Sana, the Brescian, had in such a place tasted of veritable torture.