Thou best knowest who Bartolo Contini is, Doge of Genoa.' "He speaks the truth," returned the prince, dropping his head in disappointment.

Have you not assured yourself that a certain Bartolo Contini, a man whose life is passed in open hostility to the laws, is your child?

Did he not hear from the dying lips of a holy priest, who knew all the circumstances, that 'Bartolo Contini is the son of Gaetano Grimaldi'?