But this time it went differently. The two intruders presented themselves as officers sent by the Court to arrest him, bound him hand and foot so that he could neither escape nor react, and then began to thoroughly search the house. The first thing of interest to the Cardinal was found almost immediately: the book of accounts attesting the payment of ten thousand florins, made only three months earlier by the nobleman Guglielmo Franciolini, People’s Capitan of Jesi, as well as a well-known merchant. Much more difficult it turned out to be the enterprise of finding the money. The two soldiers, after having searched the house from top to bottom, including various storerooms, cellar, attic and any other perch, realized that there were only a few coins enough for Giosuè to buy food for a week.
