Fabio Conti, tout pensif, s’arrêta dans le corps de garde du rez-de-chaussée de la tour Farnèse, d’où il se hâta de renvoyez les soldats ; il ne voulait pas de témoins à la scène qui se préparait.
Fabio Conti, lost in thought, stopped in the guard-room on the ground floor of the Torre Farnese, from which he hastily dismissed the soldiers: he did not wish to have any witnesses of the scene which was about to be played.