Il fut bien récompensé de tant de soins : après quinze jours de ce genre de vie il eut la certitude que Ferrante Palla avait été le chef secret de l’insurrection, et bien plus, que cet être, pauvre toute sa vie comme un grand poète, avait fait vendre huit ou dix diamants à Gênes.
He was well rewarded for all his trouble: after a fortnight of this kind of life he had acquired the certainty that Ferrante Palla had been the secret head of the insurrection, and furthermore, that this creature, a pauper all his life as a great poet would be, had sent nine or ten diamonds to be sold at Genoa.