Chapter XLVIII: Bindo and Ricciardo

Bindo a notable Architect, and his sonne Ricciardo, with all his familie, from Florence went to dwell at Venice, where being made Citizens for diuers monuments by them done there, throughe inordinate expences were forced to robbe the Treasure house. Bindo beinge slaine by a pollicie deuised by the Duke and state, Ricciardo by fine subtelties deliuereth himselfe from foure daungers. Afterwards the Duke (by his owne confession) vnderstandinge the sleightes, giueth him his pardon and his doughter in mariage.

[_Source and Origin._--Ser Giovanne, _Pecor._, giorn. ix., nov. 1.

_Parallels._--_Anc.:_ Herod ii. 121, 122; Diod. Sic. i. 62;
Pausanius ix. 37, § 4. _Med.:_ L. Valla. _Mod.:_ H. Stephen, _Traité
preparatif à l’Apologie_; Bandello, Part I. nov. xxv.

_Painter._--I. i. 282; II. i. 202; III. i. 356; IV. ii. 8.

_Derivates._--Henslowe’s _Diary_, 4 Mar. and 5 June 1592, has
references to a tragedy of Bindo and Ricardo, evidently derived from
this.]