So they left the house, took a gondola, and told the man to row hard to S.Maria Zobenigo.

On the way he bade him put them on shore, paid him well, and ordered him to wait for them.
They landed near the palace of the Spanish embassy; and here Bibboni meant to seek sanctuary.

For it must be remembered that the houses of ambassadors, no less than those of princes of the Church, were inviolable.

They offered the most convenient harboring-places to rascals.

Charles V., moreover, was deeply interested in the vengeance taken on Alessandro de'Medici's murderer, for his own natural daughter was Alessandro's widow and Duchess of Florence.