La duchesse attendrie lui offrit une cachette à Parme s’il voulait lui jurer que pour le moment il n’exercerait point sa magistrature dans cette ville, que surtout il n’exécuterait aucun des arrêts de mort que, disait-il, il avait in petto.
The Duchessa, in compassion, offered him a hiding-place in Parma if he would swear that for the time being he would not exercise his magistrature in that city, and above all would not carry out any of those sentences of death which, he said, he had in petto.