We bear gules, on a bend sable four bezants or; quarterly four crosses patriarchal or; a cardinal's hat as crest, and the fiocchi for supports.

Dear, I will be faithful to our motto: "Una fides, unus Dominus!"-- the true faith, and one only Master.
Perhaps, my friend, you will find some irony in my name, after all that I have done, and all that I herein avow.

I am named Modeste.
Therefore I have not deceived you by signing "O.

d'Este M." Neither have I misled you about our fortune; it will amount, I believe, to the sum which rendered you so virtuous.

I know that to you money is a consideration of small importance; therefore I speak of it without reserve.