And he wrote a letter to the teacher Zecchini, which began with the following words: “I fully accepted and your favorite Whole theory, yes, the man is an ass! and I’ve noticed these days, studying the truth above myself. “Do not you explain more, passed to other topics, recommended his crops, but the last words of the paper confused the teacher, who was left stunned by this conclusion “I am pleased to announce that I take his wife.”

The poor Zecchini did not know what to think.

Meanwhile, the love of Captain Boniface went hand in hand with the plot. A day enjoying the May sunshine under the pergola of jasmine, and roamed the hills, stopping to admire the distant horizon, and the smile of spring on the shores of the lakes.

In the evening, the colonel and the captain went out together for a long walk on the pretext of military and instead went to the nocturnal gatherings of the Carbonari, kept in a safe place.

Was chosen for this purpose a cottage in the countryside deserted fire, near a forest. The peasants remained homeless had taken refuge elsewhere. Behind some clumps of trees were young learners in the sentinel to give the signal agreed upon in case of need, the leaders who gathered in the ruins, the starlight. Each bore a Roman name, Sallust, Horace, Livy, Nero, and many of them did not know that with this name. The word of passage was: freedom avenged. There the deputy of the Knights Venetian Guelphs combined agreements with federal Lombard, who corresponded with the leaders of the leaders of the Piedmont Adelphi. The Constitution was their Latin status, which contained the plan allowed for making an armed revolt. Among the officers of the disbanded Italian army the Carbonari could be counted in thousands. The Colonel was held in secret correspondence with his brother Aristide, who knotted the relations of the sect of Lombardy hill secret societies of Turin.