The intrigue being discovered, the clerk was driven from the house.
The faithless wife soon joined her lover at Bologna, and took her children with her. The Jew applied to the courts of law to assist him in taking the children from the adulteress. The answer he received to his application was, that his wife and children had all three embraced Christianity, and had consequently ceased to be his family. The Courts further decreed that he should pay an annual income for their support. On this income the adulterous clerk also subsists. Some months later Monsignore Oppiszoni, Archbishop of Bologna, himself celebrated the marriage of M.P.
Cadova's wife and M.P.
Cadova's ex-clerk. Of course, you'll say, P.Cadova was dead.
Not a bit of it.