Some weeks before Fabrizio's escape, on a day when the whole of Parma had gone to the gate of the citadel, hoping to see in the courtyard the scaffold that was being erected for his benefit, the Duchessa had shown to Lodovico, who had become the factotum of her household, the secret by which one raised from a little iron frame, very cunningly concealed, one of the stones forming the floor of the famous reservoir of the palazzo Sanseverina, a work of the thirteenth century, of which we have spoken already.
Fabriceren ihesa baino aste batzuk lehenago, Fabriceren ohoretan patioan jasotzen ari ziren urkamendia ikusi nahian Parma osoa gotorlekuaren aurrera joana zen egun batean, dukesak sekretu bat jakinarazi zion Ludovici-bera baitzen orain dukesaren etxeko factotuma-; erakutsi zion, alegia, nola atera Sanseverina jauregiko ur-biltegiko hondoa eratzen zuten harrietako bat ondo ezkutatutako burdinazko lauki txiki batetik;