– Madame m’a fait un don tellement exagéré, tellement au-dessus de tout ce qu’un pauvre homme tel que moi pouvait s’imaginer, tellement supérieur surtout aux faibles services que j’ai eu l’honneur de rendre, que je crois en conscience ne pas pouvoir garder sa terre de la Ricciarda.
"The Signora has made me so extravagant a gift, one so far beyond anything that a poor man like me could imagine, and moreover so much greater than the humble services which I have had the honour to render, that I feel, on my conscience, that I cannot accept the podere of La Ricciarda.