'Who was it,' he says, 'who suggested my correspondence with Virginia?
The priest Paolo Arrigone, that ruin of the monastery! The Canon Pisnato, who is now confessor to the nuns of Meda; in his house you will find what will never be discovered in mine, presents from nuns, incitements to amours, and other such things.

The priest Giacomo Bertola, confessor of the nuns of S.Margherita; who was his devotee?
Sacha!--and he stayed there all the day through.

These men, being priests, are not prosecuted; they are protected by their cloth, forsooth! It is only of poor Osio that folk talk.

Only he is persecuted, only he is a malefactor, only he is the traitor!' Arrigone, as a matter of fact, was tried, and condemned to two years' labor at the galleys, after the expiration of which term he was not to return to Monza or its territory.

This seems a slight sentence; for the judges found him guilty, not only of promoting Osio's intrigue with Virginia, by conducting the correspondence, and watching the door during their interviews in the parlor, but also of pursuing the Signora himself with infamous proposals.
In his absence Osio was condemned to death on the gibbet.