I was at that time eighteen years of age, and had a natural love of justice and good neighborhood. I had also a little education, and knew something of history, so as to be able to judge a little of men and their actions. All this inspired me with hatred2 for this paltry3 despot. My own family, also, became the object of his suspicion or dislike, and felt more than once the arbitrary abuse of his power. These things worked together on my mind, and I gasped4 after vengeance5. My character was always ardent6 and energetic; and acted upon by my love of justice, determined7 me by one blow to rid the country of the tyrant8.
Full of my project I rose one morning before peep of day, and concealing9 a stiletto under my waistcoat—here you see it!—(and he drew forth10 a long keen poniard)—I lay in wait for him in the outskirts11 of the village. I knew all his haunts, and his habit of making his rounds and prowling about like a wolf, in the gray of the morning; at length I met him, and attacked him with fury. He was armed, but I took him unawares, and was full of youth and vigor12. I gave him repeated blows to make sure work, and laid him lifeless at my feet.
When I was satisfied that I had done for him, I returned with all haste to the village, but had the ill-luck to meet two of the sbirri as I entered it. They accosted13 me and asked if I had seen their chief. I assumed an air of tranquillity15, and told them I had not. They continued on their way, and, within a few hours, brought back the dead body to Prossedi. Their suspicions of me being already awakened16, I was arrested and thrown into prison. Here I lay several weeks, when the prince, who was Seigneur of Prossedi, directed judicial18 proceedings19 against me. I was brought to trial, and a witness was produced who pretended to have seen me not far from the bleeding body, and flying with precipitation, so I was condemned20 to the galleys21 for thirty years.
“Curse on such laws,” vociferated the bandit, foaming22 with rage; “curse on such a government, and ten thousand curses on the prince who caused me to be adjudged so rigorously, while so many other Roman princes harbor and protect assassins a thousand times more culpable23. What had I done but what was inspired by a love of justice and my country? Why was my act more culpable than that of Brutus, when he sacrificed Caesar to the cause of liberty and justice?”
There was something at once both lofty and ludicrous in the rhapsody of this robber chief, thus associating himself with one of the great names of antiquity24. It showed, however, that he had at least the merit of knowing the remarkable25 facts in the history of his country. He became more calm, and resumed his narrative26.
I was conducted to Civita Vecchia in fetters27. My heart was burning with rage. I had been married scarce six months to a woman whom I passionately28 loved, and who was pregnant. My family was in despair. For a long time I made unsuccessful efforts to break my chain. At length I found a morsel29 of iron which I hid carefully, endeavored with a pointed30 flint to fashion it into a kind of file. I occupied myself in this work during the night-time, and when it was finished, I made out, after a long time, to sever17 one of the rings of my chain. My flight was successful.
I wandered for several weeks in the mountains which surround Prossedi, and found means to inform my wife of the place where I was concealed31. She came often to see me. I had determined to put myself at the head of an armed band. She endeavored for a long time to dissuade32 me; but finding my resolution fixed33, she at length united in my project of vengeance, and brought me, herself, my poniard.
By her means I communicated with several brave fellows of the Neighboring villages, who I knew to be ready to take to the mountains, and only panting for an opportunity to exercise their daring spirits. We soon formed a combination, procured34 arms, and we have had ample opportunities of revenging ourselves for the wrongs and injuries which most of us have suffered. Every thing has succeeded with us until now, and had it not been for our blunder in mistaking you for the prince, our fortunes would have been made.
Here the robber concluded his story. He had talked himself into companionship, and assured me he no longer bore me any grudge36 for the error of which I had been the innocent cause. He even professed37 a kindness for me, and wished me to remain some time with them. He promised to give me a sight of certain grottos38 which they occupied beyond Villetri, and whither they resorted during the intervals39 of their expeditions. He assured me that they led a jovial40 life there; had plenty of good cheer; slept on beds of moss41, and were waited upon by young and beautiful females, whom I might take for models.
I confess I felt my curiosity roused by his descriptions of these grottos and their inhabitants; they realized those scenes in robber-story which I had always looked upon as mere42 creations of the fancy. I should gladly have accepted his invitation, and paid a visit to those caverns43, could I have felt more secure in my company.
I began to find my situation less painful. I had evidently propitiated44 the good-will of the chieftain, and hoped that he might release me for a moderate ransom45. A new alarm, however, awaited me. While the captain was looking out with impatience46 for the return of the messenger who had been sent to the prince, the sentinel who had been posted on the side of the mountain facing the plain of la Molara, came running towards us with precipitation. “We are betrayed!” exclaimed he. “The police of Frescati are after us. A party of carabiniers have just stopped at the inn below the mountain.” Then laying his hand on his stiletto, he swore, with a terrible oath, that if they made the least movement towards the mountains, my life and the lives of my fellow-prisoners should answer for it.
The chieftain resumed all his ferocity of demeanor47, and approved of what his companion said; but when the latter had returned to his post, he turned to me with a softened48 air: “I must act as chief,” said he, “and humor my dangerous subalterns. It is a law with us to kill our prisoners rather than suffer them to be rescued; but do not be alarmed. In case we are surprised keep by me; fly with us, and I will consider myself responsible for your life.”
There was nothing very consolatory49 in this arrangement, which would have placed me between two dangers; I scarcely knew, in case of flight, which I should have most to apprehend50 from, the carbines of the pursuers, or the stilettos of the pursued. I remained silent, however, and endeavored to maintain a look of tranquillity.
For an hour was I kept in this state of peril51 and anxiety. The robbers, crouching52 among their leafy coverts53, kept an eagle watch upon the carabiniers below, as they loitered about the inn; sometimes lolling about the portal; sometimes disappearing for several minutes, then sallying out, examining their weapons, pointing in different directions and apparently54 asking questions about the neighborhood; not a movement or gesture was last upon the keen eyes of the brigands56. At length we were relieved from our apprehensions57. The carabiniers having finished their refreshment58, seized their arms, continued along the valley towards the great road, and gradually left the mountain behind them. “I felt almost certain,” said the chief, “that they could not be sent after us. They know too well how prisoners have fared in our hands on similar occasions. Our laws in this respect are inflexible59, and are necessary for our safety. If we once flinched60 from them, there would no longer be such thing as a ransom to be procured.”
There were no signs yet of the messenger’s return. I was preparing to resume my sketching61, when the captain drew a quire of paper from his knapsack—“Come,” said he, laughing, “you are a painter; take my likeness63. The leaves of your portfolio64 are small; draw it on this.” I gladly consented, for it was a study that seldom presents itself to a painter. I recollected65 that Salvator Rosa in his youth had voluntarily sojourned for a time among the banditti of Calabria, and had filled his mind with the savage67 scenery and savage associates by which he was surrounded. I seized my pencil with enthusiasm at the thought. I found the captain the most docile68 of subjects, and after various shifting of positions, I placed him in an attitude to my mind.
Picture to yourself a stern, muscular figure, in fanciful bandit costume, with pistols and poniards in belt, his brawny69 neck bare, a handkerchief loosely thrown around it, and the two ends in front strung with rings of all kinds, the spoils of travellers; reliques and medals hung on his breast; his hat decorated with various-colored ribbands; his vest and short breeches of bright colors and finely embroidered70; his legs in buskins or leggins. Fancy him on a mountain height, among wild rocks and rugged71 oaks, leaning on his carbine as if meditating72 some exploit, while far below are beheld73 villages and villas74, the scenes of his maraudings, with the wide Campagna dimly extending in the distance.
The robber was pleased with the sketch62, and seemed to admire himself upon paper. I had scarcely finished, when the laborer75 arrived who had been sent for my ransom. He had reached Tusculum two hours after midnight. He brought me a letter from the prince, who was in bed at the time of his arrival. As I had predicted, he treated the demand as extravagant76, but offered five hundred dollars for my ransom. Having no money by him at the moment, he had sent a note for the amount, payable77 to whomever should conduct me safe and sound to Rome. I presented the note of hand to the chieftain; he received it with a shrug78. “Of what use are notes of hand to us?” said he, “who can we send with you to Rome to receive it? We are all marked men, known and described at every gate and military post, and village church-door. No, we must have gold and silver; let the sum be paid in cash and you shall be restored to liberty.”
The captain again placed a sheet of paper before me to communicate His determination to the prince. When I had finished the letter and took the sheet from the quire, I found on the opposite side of it the portrait which I had just been tracing. I was about to tear it off and give it to the chief.
“Hold,” said he, “let it go to Rome; let them see what kind of looking fellow I am. Perhaps the prince and his friends may form as good an opinion of me from my face as you have done.”
This was said sportively, yet it was evident there was vanity lurking79 at the bottom. Even this wary80, distrustful chief of banditti forgot for a moment his usual foresight81 and precaution in the common wish to be admired. He never reflected what use might be made of this portrait in his pursuit and conviction.
The letter was folded and directed, and the messenger departed again For Tusculum. It was now eleven o’clock in the morning, and as yet we had eaten nothing. In spite of all my anxiety, I began to feel a craving82 appetite. I was glad, therefore, to hear the captain talk something of eating. He observed that for three days and nights they had been lurking about among rocks and woods, meditating their expedition to Tusculum, during which all their provisions had been exhausted83. He should now take measures to procure35 a supply. Leaving me, therefore, in the charge of his comrade, in whom he appeared to have implicit84 confidence, he departed, assuring me, that in less than two hours we should make a good dinner. Where it was to come from was an enigma85 to me, though it was evident these beings had their secret friends and agents throughout the country.
Indeed, the inhabitants of these mountains and of the valleys which they embosom are a rude, half civilized87 set. The towns and villages among the forests of the Abruzzi, shut up from the rest of the world, are almost like savage dens88. It is wonderful that such rude abodes89, so little known and visited, should be embosomed in the midst of one of the most travelled and civilized countries of Europe. Among these regions the robber prowls unmolested; not a mountaineer hesitates to give him secret harbor and assistance. The shepherds, however, who tend their flocks among the mountains, are the favorite emissaries of the robbers, when they would send messages down to the valleys either for ransom or supplies. The shepherds of the Abruzzi are as wild as the scenes they frequent. They are clad in a rude garb90 of black or brown sheep-skin; they have high conical hats, and coarse sandals of cloth bound round their legs with thongs91, similar to those worn by the robbers. They carry long staffs, on which as they lean they form picturesque92 objects in the lonely landscape, and they are followed by their ever-constant companion, the dog. They are a curious, questioning set, glad at any time to relieve the monotony of their solitude93 by the conversation of the passerby94, and the dog will lend an attentive95 ear, and put on as sagacious and inquisitive96 a look as his master.
But I am wandering from my story. I was now left alone with one of the robbers, the confidential97 companion of the chief. He was the youngest and most vigorous of the band, and though his countenance98 had something of that dissolute fierceness which seems natural to this desperate, lawless mode of life, yet there were traits of manly99 beauty about it. As an artist I could not but admire it. I had remarked in him an air of abstraction and reverie, and at times a movement of inward suffering and impatience. He now sat on the ground; his elbows on his knees, his head resting between his clenched100 fists, and his eyes fixed on the earth with an expression of sad and bitter rumination101. I had grown familiar with him from repeated conversations, and had found him superior in mind to the rest of the band. I was anxious to seize every opportunity of sounding the feelings of these singular beings. I fancied I read in the countenance of this one traces of self-condemnation and remorse102; and the ease with which I had drawn103 forth the confidence of the chieftain encouraged me to hope the same with his followers104.
After a little preliminary conversation, I ventured to ask him if he did not feel regret at having abandoned his family and taken to this dangerous profession. “I feel,” replied he, “but one regret, and that will end only with my life;” as he said this he pressed his clenched fists upon his bosom86, drew his breath through his set teeth, and added with deep emotion, “I have something within here that stifles105 me; it is like a burning iron consuming my very heart. I could tell you a miserable106 story, but not now—another time.”—He relapsed into his former position, and sat with his head between his hands, muttering to himself in broken ejaculations, and what appeared at times to be curses and maledictions. I saw he was not in a mood to be disturbed, so I left him to himself. In a little time the exhaustion107 of his feelings, and probably the fatigues108 he had undergone in this expedition, began to produce drowsiness109. He struggled with it for a time, but the warmth and sultriness of mid-day made it irresistible110, and he at length stretched himself upon the herbage and fell asleep.
I now beheld a chance of escape within my reach. My guard lay before me at my mercy. His vigorous limbs relaxed by sleep; his bosom open for the blow; his carbine slipped from his nerveless grasp, and lying by his side; his stiletto half out of the pocket in which it was usually carried. But two of his comrades were in sight, and those at a considerable distance, on the edge of the mountain; their backs turned to us, and their attention occupied in keeping a look-out upon the plain. Through a strip of intervening forest, and at the foot of a steep descent, I beheld the village of Rocca Priori. To have secured the carbine of the sleeping brigand55, to have seized upon his poniard and have plunged112 it in his heart, would have been the work of an instant. Should he die without noise, I might dart113 through the forest and down to Rocca Priori before my flight might be discovered. In case of alarm, I should still have a fair start of the robbers, and a chance of getting beyond the reach of their shot.
Here then was an opportunity for both escape and vengeance; perilous114, indeed, but powerfully tempting115. Had my situation been more critical I could not have resisted it. I reflected, however, for a moment. The attempt, if successful, would be followed by the sacrifice of my two fellow prisoners, who were sleeping profoundly, and could not be awakened in time to escape. The laborer who had gone after the ransom might also fall a victim to the rage of the robbers, without the money which he brought being saved. Besides, the conduct of the chief towards me made me feel certain of speedy deliverance. These reflections overcame the first powerful impulse, and I calmed the turbulent agitation116 which it had awakened.
I again took out my materials for drawing, and amused myself with sketching the magnificent prospect117. It was now about noon, and every thing seemed sunk into repose118, like the bandit that lay sleeping before me. The noon-tide stillness that reigned119 over these mountains, the vast landscape below, gleaming with distant towns and dotted with various habitations and signs of life, yet all so silent, had a powerful effect upon my mind. The intermediate valleys, too, that lie among mountains have a peculiar120 air of solitude. Few sounds are heard at mid-day to break the quiet of the scene. Sometimes the whistle of a solitary121 muleteer, lagging with his lazy animal along the road that winds through the centre of the valley; sometimes the faint piping of a shepherd’s reed from the side of the mountain, or sometimes the bell of an ass14 slowly pacing along, followed by a monk123 with bare feet and bare shining head, and carrying provisions to the convent.
I had continued to sketch for some time among my sleeping companions, when at length I saw the captain of the band approaching, followed by a peasant leading a mule122, on which was a well-filled sack. I at first apprehended124 that this was some new prey125 fallen into the hands of the robbers, but the contented126 look of the peasant soon relieved me, and I was rejoiced to hear that it was our promised repast. The brigands now came running from the three sides of the mountain, having the quick scent111 of vultures. Every one busied himself in unloading the mule and relieving the sack of its contents.
The first thing that made its appearance was an enormous ham of a color and plumpness that would have inspired the pencil of Teniers. It was followed by a large cheese, a bag of boiled chestnuts127, a little barrel of wine, and a quantity of good household bread. Everything was arranged on the grass with a degree of symmetry, and the captain presenting me his knife, requested me to help myself. We all seated ourselves round the viands128, and nothing was heard for a time but the sound of vigorous mastication129, or the gurgling of the barrel of wine as it revolved130 briskly about the circle. My long fasting and the mountain air and exercise had given me a keen appetite, and never did repast appear to me more excellent or picturesque.
From time to time one of the band was despatched to keep a look-out upon the plain: no enemy was at hand, and the dinner was undisturbed.
The peasant received nearly twice the value of his provisions, and set off down the mountain highly satisfied with his bargain. I felt invigorated by the hearty131 meal I had made, and notwithstanding that the wound I had received the evening before was painful, yet I could not but feel extremely interested and gratified by the singular scenes continually presented to me. Every thing seemed pictured about these wild beings and their haunts. Their bivouacs, their groups on guard, their indolent noon-tide repose on the mountain brow, their rude repast on the herbage among rocks and trees, every thing presented a study for a painter. But it was towards the approach of evening that I felt the highest enthusiasm awakened.
The setting sun, declining beyond the vast Campagna, shed its rich yellow beams on the woody summits of the Abruzzi. Several mountains crowned with snow shone brilliantly in the distance, contrasting their brightness with others, which, thrown into shade, assumed deep tints132 of purple and violet. As the evening advanced, the landscape darkened into a sterner character. The immense solitude around; the wild mountains broken into rocks and precipices133, intermingled with vast oak, cork134, and chestnuts; and the groups of banditti in the foreground, reminded me of those savage scenes of Salvator Rosa.
To beguile135 the time the captain proposed to his comrades to spread before me their jewels and cameos, as I must doubtless be a judge of such articles, and able to inform them of their nature. He set the example, the others followed it, and in a few moments I saw the grass before me sparkling with jewels and gems136 that would have delighted the eyes of an antiquary or a fine lady. Among them were several precious jewels and antique intaglios and cameos of great value, the spoils doubtless of travellers of distinction. I found that they were in the habit of selling their booty in the frontier towns. As these in general were thinly and poorly peopled, and little frequented by travellers, they could offer no market for such valuable articles of taste and luxury. I suggested to them the certainty of their readily obtaining great pieces for these gems among the rich strangers with which Rome was thronged137.
The impression made upon their greedy minds was immediately apparent. One of the band, a young man, and the least known, requested permission of the captain to depart the following day in disguise for Rome, for the purpose of traffick; promising138 on the faith of a bandit (a sacred pledge amongst them) to return in two days to any place he might appoint. The captain consented, and a curious scene took place. The robbers crowded round him eagerly, confiding139 to him such of their jewels as they wished to dispose of, and giving him instructions what to demand. There was bargaining and exchanging and selling of trinkets among themselves, and I beheld my watch, which had a chain and valuable seals, purchased by the young robber merchant of the ruffian who had plundered140 me, for sixty dollars. I now conceived a faint hope that if it went to Rome, I might somehow or other regain141 possession of it.
In the mean time day declined, and no messenger returned from Tusculum.
The idea of passing another night in the woods was extremely disheartening; for I began to be satisfied with what I had seen of robber life. The chieftain now ordered his men to follow him, that he might station them at their posts, adding, that if the messenger did not return before night they must shift their quarters to some other place.
I was again left alone with the young bandit who had before guarded me: he had the same gloomy air and haggard eye, with now and then a bitter sardonic142 smile. I was determined to probe this ulcerated heart, and reminded him of a kind of promise he had given me to tell me the cause of his suffering.
It seemed to me as if these troubled spirits were glad of an opportunity to disburthen themselves; and of having some fresh undiseased mind with which they could communicate. I had hardly made the request but he seated himself by my side, and gave me his story in, as nearly as I can recollect66, the following words.
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