Spending thus greatly beyond his means, and making nothing, Federigo could hardly fail to come to lack,and was at length reduced to such poverty that he had nothing left but a little estate, on the rents of which he lived very straitly, and a single falcon, the best in the world. The estate was at Campi, and thither, deeming it no longer possible for him to live in the city as he desired, he repaired, more in love than ever before;and there, in complete seclusion, diverting himself with hawking, he bore his poverty as patiently as he might.