sentences:  Guido
  meets him in the market, as the letter instructs, and after Ascanio leaves, he reveals himself as Count Moranzone.He tells Guido that his father was the Duke Lorenzo, who had been executed after being betrayed by a close friend in exchange for land, that his mother died in a swoon on hearing the news, and it was he who had taken the young Guido to the family he had grown up with.He encourages Guido in his revenge, and telling him that betraying the Duke is better than merely killing him, and shows him his father's knife.