320.] But Pietro got away to Ferrara, his enemy following and again missing him.

Samminiati writes that he is resolved to hunt 'that rascal' out, and make an end of him.

Meanwhile Umilia is commissioned to do for Calidonia Burlamacchi, a nun who had withdrawn from the company of her guilty sisters, and knew too many of their secrets.

Samminiati sends a white powder, and a little phial containing a liquid, both of which, he informs Umilia, are potent poisons, with instructions how to use them and how to get Calidonia to swallow the ingredients.

Then 'if the devil does not help her, she will pass from this life in half a night's time, and without the slightest sign of violence.' It may be imagined what disturbance was caused in the General Council by the reading of this correspondence.