In short Campana was allowed to lend himself L4,000, for which he gave security to a much larger amount.
But the order by which the Minister gave him permission to draw from the coffers of the Monte di Pieta was so loosely drawn up, that he was enabled to take, without any fresh authority, a trifle of something like L106,000.

This he took between the 12th of April, 1854, and the 1st of December 1856, a period of nineteen months and a half.
There was no concealment in the transaction; it certainly was irregular, but it was not clandestine.

Campana paid himself the interest of the money he had lent himself.

In 1856 he was paternally reprimanded.

He received a gentle rap over the knuckles, but there was not the least idea of tying his hands.