A single pass of rapiers, in which Rocco was pierced through the right eye, ended the affair.
[Footnote 197: He was afterwards forced, in 1590, to disgorge a second sum of 25,000 crowns.] [Footnote 198: Prospero Farinaccio, the advocate of Cenci's murderers, was himself tried for this crime (Bertolotti, _op.

cit._ p.

104).

The curious story of the Spanish soldiers alluded to above will be found in Mutinelli, _Stor.Arc_.

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