For certain bring the tragedy about,

Giuseppe Caponsacchi;—his strange course

I' the matter, was it right or wrong or both?

Then the old couple, slaughtered with the wife

By the husband as accomplices in crime,

Those Comparini, Pietro and his spouse,—

What say you to the right or wrong of that,

When, at a known name whispered through the door

Of a lone villa on a Christmas night,

It opened that the joyous hearts inside