Poznámky
Calèche: a light, open four-wheeled carriage with a folding hood. ↩
Dominos: long hooded cloaks worn as disguise at masquerades. ↩
Confetti: during the Roman Carnival of the period, small bits of chalk or plaster, not paper — thrown in handfuls at passersby. ↩
Italian: "Pietro! Darling! Angel!" — carnival exclamations. In Italian in the original. ↩
Piazza del Popolo: the large square at the northern end of the Corso from which the Barberi race was started each evening of Carnival. ↩
The Barberi: riderless Barbary horses adorned with spurs and tinsel, raced the length of the Corso — a famous Roman Carnival tradition abolished in 1882. ↩
coarse: Marie writes this word in English in the original French text. In English in the original. ↩