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Casino — in the terminology of Italian villas, a casino is a small pleasure-house or subsidiary building within the estate; not a gambling establishment. ↩
Canova's Pauline Borghese as Venus Victrix (1808) — the famous semi-nude reclining sculpture of Napoleon's sister Pauline Bonaparte (1780–1825), wife of Prince Camillo Borghese. ↩
Pietro Antonelli's position in Roman society was complicated by the political divide: the Antonelli family owed everything to the papal court, yet the new unified Italian state demanded allegiance. Going to the royal court meant breaking with the Vatican. ↩
Petruccio — Italian affectionate diminutive of Pietro; the Italian equivalent of "little Peter." ↩
Table d'hôte — the shared common table at a hotel where guests dined together at fixed hours on a set menu, as distinct from private dining in one's rooms. ↩
Plutarch, Table-Talk (Quaestiones Convivales) — Marie paraphrases the classical injunction against dining with strangers, which she is flouting in order to be near the Muliterno family. ↩