One of the soldiers was beheaded at Perugia, and the other fell a victim to cut-throats on the high road.

Such was the end of the five conspirators against Fra Paolo Sarpi's life.[146] A priest, Franceschi, who had aided and abetted their plot, disappeared soon after the explosion; and we may rest tolerably assured that his was no natural removal to another world.
It is just to add that the instigation of this murderous plot was never brought home by direct testimony to any members of the Papal Court.

But the recourse which the assassins first had to the asylum of the Nuncio in Venice, their triumphal progress through cities of the Church, the moneys they drew on several occasions, the interest taken in them by Cardinal Borghese when they finally reached Rome, and their deaths in Papal dungeons, are circumstances of overwhelming cumulative evidence against the Curia.

Sarpi's life was frequently attempted in the following years.

On one occasion, Cardinal Bellarmino, more mindful of private friendship than of public feud, sent him warning that he must live prepared for fresh attacks from Rome.
[Footnote 146: A full account of them is given by Bianchi Giovini in his _Biografia_, chap.