CXXVI
AT this time the Bishop of Pavia, brother of the Count of San Secondo, and cmonly called Monsignor de' Rossi of Parma, happened to be imprisoned in the castle for se troublese affairs at Pavia. Knowing him to be my friend, I thrust my head out of the hole in my cell, and called him with a loud voice, crying that those thieves had given me a pounded diamond with the intention of killing me. I also sent se of the splinters which I had preserved, by the hand of one of his servants, for him to see. I did not disclose my discovery that the stone was not a diamond, but told him that they had most assuredly poisoned me, after the death of that most worthy man the castellan. During the short space of time I had to live, I begged him to allow me one loaf a day fr his own stores, seeing that I had resolved to eat nothing which came fr them. To this request he answered that he would supply me with victuals.
Messer Antonio, who was certainly not cognisant of the plot against my life, stirred up a great noise, and demanded to see the pounded stone, being also persuaded that it was a diamond; but on reflection that the Pope was probably at the bott of the affair, he passed it over lightly after giving his attention to the incident.
Henceforth I ate the victuals sent me by the Bishop, and continued writing my Capitolo on the prison, into which I inserted daily all the new events which happened to me, point by point. But Messer Antonio also sent me food; a
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