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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

CHAPTER VI
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Afterwards he learned that Troilo lay dangerously wounded by a harquebuss.

Further details made him aware that he was himself suspected of the murder, and that Troilo could not recover.

He therefore conferred upon the matter with Hieronimo in Notre Dame, and both of them resolved to leave Paris secretly.

This they did at once, relinquishing clothes, arms, and baggage in their lodgings, and reached Italy in safety.
_Lodovico dall'Armi_.
The relations of trust which _bravi_ occasionally maintained with foreign Courts, supply some curious illustrations of their position in Italian society.

One characteristic instance may be selected from documents in the Venetian Archives referring to Lodovico dall'Armi.[228] This man belonged to a noble family of Bologna; and there are reasons for supposing that his mother was sister to Cardinal Campeggi, famous in the annals of the English Reformation.


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