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1Whilst he was still in the charge of Messer Francesco Guinigi, one of his companions said to him: "What shall I give you
2if you will let me give you a blow on the nose?" Castruccio answered: "A helmet." Having put to death a citizen of Lucca
3who had been instrumental in raising him to power, and being told that he had done wrong to kill one of his old friends,
4he answered that people deceived themselves; he had only killed a new enemy. Castruccio praised greatly those men who
5intended to take a wife and then did not do so, saying that they were like men who said they would go to sea, and then
6refused when the time came. He said that it always struck him with surprise that whilst men in buying an earthen or
7glass vase would sound it first to learn if it were good, yet in choosing a wife they were content with only looking at
8her. He was once asked in what manner he would wish to be buried when he died, and answered: "With the face turned
9downwards, for I know when I am gone this country will be turned upside down." On being asked if it had ever occurred to
10him to become a friar in order to save his soul, he answered that it had not, because it appeared strange to him that
11Fra Lazerone should go to Paradise and Uguccione della Faggiuola to the Inferno. He was once asked when should a man eat
12to preserve his health, and replied: "If the man be rich let him eat when he is hungry; if he be poor, then when he
13can." Seeing one of his gentlemen make a member of his family lace him up, he said to him: "I pray God that you will let
14him feed you also." Seeing that someone had written upon his house in Latin the words: "May God preserve this house from
15the wicked," he said, "The owner must never go in." Passing through one of the streets he saw a small house with a very
16large door, and remarked: "That house will fly through the door." He was having a discussion with the ambassador of the
17King of Naples concerning the property of some banished nobles, when a dispute arose between them, and the ambassador
18asked him if he had no fear of the king. "Is this king of yours a bad man or a good one?" asked Castruccio, and was told
19that he was a good one, whereupon he said, "Why should you suggest that I should be afraid of a good man?" I could
20recount many other stories of his sayings both witty and weighty, but I think that the above will be sufficient
21testimony to his high qualities. He lived forty-four years, and was in every way a prince. And as he was surrounded by
22many evidences of his good fortune, so he also desired to have near him some memorials of his bad fortune; therefore the
23manacles with which he was chained in prison are to be seen to this day fixed up in the tower of his residence, where
24they were placed by him to testify forever to his days of adversity. As in his life he was inferior neither to Philip of
25Macedon, the father of Alexander, nor to Scipio of Rome, so he died in the same year of his age as they did, and he
26would doubtless have excelled both of them had Fortune decreed that he should be born, not in Lucca, but in Macedonia or
27Rome.
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