Arrivé et reconnu dans le fort, il jette le commandant dans un puits, déclare la guerre au Sforce, et au bout de quelques années il échange sa forteresse contre ces terres immenses qui ont fait la fortune de toutes les branches de notre famille, et qui un jour me vaudront à moi quatre mille livres de rente.
Arriving at the fort, where his authority was duly acknowledged, he flung the commandant down a well, declared war on the Sforza, and after a few years exchanged his fortress 'for those vast estates which have made the fortune of every branch of our family, and one day will bring in to me, personally, an income of four thousand lire."