Complex sentence: The Count then boasts of his deeds and ancestry to the Podestà, tracing his family tree to Scipio, Cato and Marcus Aurelius ("Da Scirocco").
Split into simpler sentences: The Count then boasts of his deeds and ancestry to the Podestà. His family tree, he says proudly, can be traced to Scipio, Cato and Marcus Aurelius ("Da Scirocco").