No more for the present.

Again look well to that matter, and on no account let Rexa see this letter." Lucretia, it appears, wished to leave Nepi and return to Rome, for which her father at first might refuse his permission.

Perhaps Rexa in this letter means Alexander, and the name Farina may signify Cardinal Farnese, upon whose intermediation she counted.

Vincenzo finally wrote her that he had spoken to the Pope himself, and Lucretia, in an undated letter, showed her servant how pleased she was because everything had turned out better than she had expected.

This is the only letter in which the signature, "The unhappy Princess of Salerno" is not stricken out.
We do not know how long Lucretia remained in Nepi, where, in summer, the moisture rising from the rocky chasms caused deadly fevers, and still renders that place and Civitacastellana unhealthful.