«Yes, but why did your namesake, if she considered her uncle such a wicked person, want to cover up her own misdeeds? I can’t explain it to myself!»
«Well, family honour above all. Although Lucia hated her uncle for all the wrongdoings he had done, she did not tolerate that his name was linked to such a murky story. And so she preferred to continue to believe the official version of the story, which did not involve the Cardinal as the perpetrator of the betrayal. Just think that I discovered that Artemio Baldeschi died falling from a window on the second floor of the building, just as he was trying to rape his niece. Lucia managed to defend herself and to provoke, albeit involuntarily, the death of her wicked uncle, but one of her servants was blamed for this, who was tried and later exec
