Messer Currado marvelled to hear that Pietro was Fineo’s son, and not without shame, albeit ’twas not his but Fortune’s fault, confessed that ’twas even as Fineo said:  and having caused Pietro to be taken home with all speed, and Messer Amerigo to be brought before him, told him the whole matter.  Messer Amerigo, who supposed that by this time his daughter and grandson must be dead, was the saddest man in the world to think that ’twas by his deed, witting that, were the damsel still alive, all might very easily be set right:  however, he sent post haste to his daughter’s abode, revoking his orders, if they were not yet carried out.  The servant, whom he had earlier despatched, had laid the sword and poison before the damsel, and, for that she was in no hurry to make her choice, was giving her foul words, and endeavouring to constrain her thereto, when the messenger arrived; but on hearing the injunction laid upon him by his lord, he desisted, and went back, and told him how things stood.  Whereupon Messer Amerigo, much relieved, hied him to Fineo, and well-nigh weeping, and excusing himself for what had befallen, as best he knew how, craved his pardon, and professed himself well content to give Teodoro, so he were minded to have her, his daughter to wife.  Fineo readily accepted his excuses, and made answer:—­“’Tis my will that my son espouse your daughter, and, so he will not, let thy sentence passed upon him be carried out.”

So Fineo and Messer Amerigo being agreed, while Teodoro still languished in fear of death, albeit he was glad at heart to have found his father, they questioned him of his will in regard of this matter.

When he heard that, if he would, he might have Violante to wife, Teodoro’s delight was such that he seemed to leap from hell to paradise, and said that, if ’twas agreeable to them all, he should deem it the greatest of favours.  So they sent to the damsel to learn her pleasure:  who, having heard how it had fared, and was now like to fare, with Teodoro, albeit, saddest of women, she looked for nought but death, began at length to give some credence to their words, and to recover heart a little, and answered that, were she to follow the bent of her desire, nought that could happen would delight her more than to be Teodoro’s wife; but nevertheless she would do as her father bade her.

So, all agreeing, the damsel was espoused with all pomp and festal cheer, to the boundless delight of all the citizens, and was comforted, and nurtured her little boy, and in no long time waxed more beautiful than ever before; and, her confinement being ended, she presented herself before Fineo, who was then about to quit Rome on his homeward journey, and did him such reverence as is due to a father.  Fineo, mighty well pleased to have so fair a daughter-in-law, caused celebrate her nuptials most bravely and gaily, and received, and did ever thereafter entreat, her as his daughter.

And so he took her, not many days after the festivities were ended, with his son and little grandson, aboard a galley, and brought them to Lazistan, and there thenceforth the two lovers dwelt with him in easeful and lifelong peace.