I know," said Menocchio to the vicar general "that [Nicola] had a book called Zampollo, a buffoon, according to him, who died and went to hell and joked with the demons there; and ifi remember he said that he was with a companion, and that a demon had taken a liking to the buffoon, and when his companion learned that the demon was fond of the buffoon he said to him that he should pretend to be unhappy; and as he was doing this, the demon said to him: Why do you look unhappy? Speak honestly, regardless, because one should be honorable even in hell."To the vicar general this speech must have sounded like a lot of foolishness. He immediately brought the interrogation back to more serious questions-- for example, had Menocchio ever asserted that all men go to hell?- thereby allowing an important lead to slip by. In fact, Menocchio had absorbed the book that Nicola da Porcia where he had permanently assimilated its themes and expressions, even if mistakenly he had substituted a perversion of the name of the protagonist, zanpolo, for the title, sogno dil Caravia