Luca Martelli, writing to Varchi, says that it was Bebo who clove Lorenzino's skull with a cutlass.

He adds this curious detail, that the weapons of both men were poisoned, and that the wound inflicted by Bibboni on Soderini's hand was a slight one.

Yet, the poignard being poisoned, Soderini died of it.

In other respects Martelli's brief account agrees with that given by Bibboni, who probably did no more, his comrade being dead, than claim for himself, at some expense of truth, the lion's share of their heroic action.
_Ambrogio Tremazzi_.[227] [Footnote 227: The text is published, from Florentine Archives, in Gnoli's _Vittoria Accoramboni_, pp.

404-414.] In illustration of this narrative, and in evidence that it stands by no means solitary on the records of that century, I shall extract some passages from the report made by Ambrogio Tremazzi of Modigliana concerning the assassination of Troilo Orsini.