at night, by leaning on the window-sill and poking his head out through the hatch, he could distinguish any noise at all loud that was made on the great staircase, called "of the three hundred steps," which led from the first courtyard, inside the round tower, to the stone platform on which had been built the governor's palazzo and the Farnese prison in which he himself was.
gauez, leiho gainean etzanik eta leihatilatik burua kanpora atereaz, eskailera nagusiko zarata handi samarrak bereiztea lortu zuen mutilak. Eskailera hari hirurehun mailakoa esaten zioten, eta dorretzar barruko lehenengo patiotik gobernadorearen jauregia eta Farnese espetxea-bera zegoen lekua, alegia-eraikita zeudeneko harrizko zabaldegira eramaten zuen.