Chapter 10
Try to be yourself and not your shadow,
or you will leave without knowing what life is.
(Giorgio Faletti)
For Capoferri, the raid down to the village near the river would have been a hoot, a fun, not to be taken as an action of war. An easy job, a diversion, something of little importance to carry out alone, at most with the help of two armigers loyal to him. He would have made a good impression on the Cardinal, who would perhaps have promoted him to Captain of his Guard. In fact, the Baldeschi had much higher goals for his rival. The Balistreri would have been sent to Rome, directly in the service of the Pope, after the success he had achieved in making the Cardinal’s sister confess. Antonio Capoferri, in going over in his mind the names of the young women he had to capture
