Piccolomini took that pear and inserted it into my mouth so deeply that I thought it would reach my throat. Immediately after, he began to turn the screw, and the pear started to open, causing unbearable pain. Moments later, almost all my teeth were on the floor, and black blood was flowing from my mouth, now forced open so wide that I could barely close it.
After this, the guards took all the Cardinals back to their cell, leaving me alone in that room. The soldiers then stripped me of the remaining clothes on my body and beat me with the sheaths of their swords until I was left unconscious in a pool of blood, unable to react in any way.
Shortly after, I was dragged naked to the cell where the other Cardinals were being held. They were so terrified when they saw me and the state I was in that they almost screamed. Cesare took off his cardinal's cloak and covered me with it. Blood was pouring so heavily from every part of my body that I thought I would die.
