The identity of the traitor who leaked information to Fango and tried to kill Nero has been revealed. With Corteo taken into custody, the Vanetti family has been thrown into an uproar. But Corteo stubbornly refuses to confess anything, a fact which will likely lead to his death. Though he won't admit to it, Avilio is unusually shaken by this. And then Cerotto pays him a visit...
It was just the shallow 
thinking of a senile old man.
كان مجرّد تفكير ضحل من عجوز خرف
Es blieb beim oberflächlichen Gedanken
eines senilen alten Mannes.
No eran más que los delirios
de un viejo senil.
No eran más que los delirios
de un viejo senil.
Si è trattato dell'idea frivola
di un vecchio rimbambito.
Foram somente delírios de um velho senil.
Глупые намерения глупого старика
 так ими и остались.