The Courier's Tale (2011)
“I myself have had only a modest number – student, courier, prisoner, bodyguard – but in Viterbo one came along which I had never expected and did not relish: that of gaoler.
This was assigned to me when the first of our assassins were caught. It was my task to convey them to Rome for investigation.
Marc’Antonio came along for the ride only, he said, to see such a sight: the greatest ruffian in the world playing the part of a screw.
I told him to be quiet. I was upset as it was. I felt most unco...mfortable mustering my prisoners with their hands tied behind their backs and their legs tied under the mules’ bellies, and leading them out of the castle and through the streets and out into the countryside where the sun was shining and the birds were singing sweetly. But what was I to do? In my charge was a Bolognese villain named Alessandro with a buff jerkin and a black beard growing the length of two fingers beneath his chin, and with him two English youths who had come to Viterbo disguised as his Flemish servants.MoreLess
This was assigned to me when the first of our assassins were caught. It was my task to convey them to Rome for investigation.
Marc’Antonio came along for the ride only, he said, to see such a sight: the greatest ruffian in the world playing the part of a screw.
I told him to be quiet. I was upset as it was. I felt most unco...mfortable mustering my prisoners with their hands tied behind their backs and their legs tied under the mules’ bellies, and leading them out of the castle and through the streets and out into the countryside where the sun was shining and the birds were singing sweetly. But what was I to do? In my charge was a Bolognese villain named Alessandro with a buff jerkin and a black beard growing the length of two fingers beneath his chin, and with him two English youths who had come to Viterbo disguised as his Flemish servants.MoreLess
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