Flaminio, the innocent and young, was playing on his lute and singing _Miserere_ in the great hall of the palace.

The murderers surprised him with a shot from one of their harquebusses.

He ran, wounded in the shoulder, to his sister's room.

She, it is said, was telling her beads before retiring for the night.

When three of the assassins entered, she knelt before the crucifix, and there they stabbed her in the left breast, turning the poignard in the wound, and asking her with savage insults if her heart was pierced.