- Brother Timothy: And I also managed to procure a pope's skull, just like the one in Brother Orsini's office
- Brother Martino: Which pope is yours?
- Brother Timothy: Why, Pope Paul the Eighth, of course.
- Brother Martino: That's impossible; the one in Brother Orsini's office is the skull of Pope Paul the Eighth.
- Brother Timothy: So? What's your problem?
- Brother Martino: How can there be two skulls of the same pope?
- Brother Timothy: Why bless you, it's perfectly simple. The pope's skull in Brother Orsini's office belonged to Pope Paul the Eighth when he was an 86 year old man; and mine is of Pope Paul the Eighth when he was only 65.
- Brother Martino: Oh! I see.
- Brother Timothy: Brother Martino, sometimes you are as slow as you are short.