To God Most Good & Most Great
To Metello Bichi, patrician of Siena, very generous Cardinal
titular of S.Alessio, whose equal nobility was virtue,
elevated for the benefit of Pontifex Massimo Paul V by the
Episcopate of Sovana in the light of purple of Rome and
the excellence of the Archbishopric of Siena, a virtue that
shone very brightly but for a very short time, Vincenzo and
Bernardino, very sadly, built from their brother taken away
prematurely. However, they mitigate their sad regret for this
sole reason that the ashes of a most illustrious extinct virtue are
still colored purple.
He died at the age of seventy-eight on the first of July 1619