My attendants came up.

I felt an acute pain, which made me, at first, desirous of stopping; but, fearing the dangerousness of the place, I made a virtue of necessity, and went on to Viterbo, where we arrived very late on the 16th of October.

Three days afterwards they dragged me to Rome with much trouble.

As soon as I arrived at Rome, I called for doctors, who found the bone laid bare.

It was not, however, thought to be broken; though the shoe of the horse had left its impression." However impatient Petrarch might be to look once more on the beauties of Rome, and to join in the jubilee, he was obliged to keep his bed for many days.
The concourse of pilgrims to this jubilee was immense.