There the same scenes of bloodshed awaited her.

A third time she took to flight, and now concealed her precious charge in a nunnery.

The boy was afterwards stolen from the town on horseback by a soldier of adventure.

After surviving three massacres of kith and kin, he returned as despot at the age of twelve to Camerino, and became a general of distinction.

But he was not destined to end his life in peace.