After fleeing England, Castruccio finds himself in Ostend, where he meets Alberto Scoto. He fights for Alberto Scoto, and the lessons he learns under him contributes to the manner with which he seeks power and glory. As Shelley describes it "Scoto's was an evil school; and, if his pupil gained from him a true insight into Italian politics, he at the same time learned the use of those arts which then so much disgraced that people" (100).