Poznámky
"B.N." — the Bibliothèque Nationale (now Bibliothèque nationale de France), where the original manuscript of Marie's diary is held. "P.M.B." is the archival notation of the curator; the annotation dates the discovery of damage to the manuscript. ↩
"Un second soi-même" — a second self: the classical philosophical formulation of true friendship (from Aristotle via Cicero); applied by Marie to Walitsky with unusual warmth and gravity. ↩
"The tall Doria" (le grand Doria): a member of the Doria family distinguished by his height; apparently a recurring presence on the Roman promenade. ↩
The Teatro Apollo: the principal opera house in Rome, built in 1795 on the site of the Castel Sant'Angelo's ramparts; it was demolished in 1889 to make way for the embankment of the Tiber. ↩
La Vestale: opera by Gaspare Spontini (1807); a tragedy set in ancient Rome featuring a Vestal Virgin who breaks her vow of chastity for love; one of the great works of early 19th-century opera. ↩
A Greek coiffure (coiffure grecque): the classical hairstyle Marie has been practising throughout the carnet — hair arranged in bands and coils following ancient sculptures. ↩
The ellipsis is Marie's own — a characteristic teasing gesture, leaving unspecified what the Marquis "remembers" of a previous encounter. ↩
Marie's jotted wish-list for her ideal home — the bronze machine refers back to her January 12 entry, where she admired Caracalla's bronze doors and resolved to have one to recall their sound. An oratory (private chapel) and a studio complete the dream. ↩