It is further clear that, finding herself exposed to the calumnies of those two witnesses, and injured in her reputation, she took the veil to screen her honor.' On August 13, Petrucci returned to Lucca.
Clement conceded one point.

He gave commission to the Bishop of Lucca to inquire into Umilia's conduct within the precincts of the monastery.

But the council refused this intervention, for they were on bad terms with the Bishop, and resented ecclesiastical interference in secular causes.
Moreover, they judged that such an inquisition without torture used, and in a place of safety, would prove worse than useless.

Thus the affair dropped.
Meanwhile we may relate what happened to Massimiliano and his _bravi_.
They escaped, through Garfagnana and Massa, into the territory of Alfonso Malaspina, Marquis of Villafranca and Tresana.

This nobleman, who delighted in protecting outlaws, placed the four men in security in his stronghold of Tresana.