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G. Cd Antonelli — abbreviation for Giacomo Cardinale Antonelli (1806–1876), Secretary of State to Pope Pius IX and the most powerful figure in the papal administration. He had died just months earlier, in November 1876. ↩
Giacometto — Italian diminutive of Giacomo (James); here used affectionately-ironically for the young Doria whom Marie found intimidating. ↩
La Jolie Parfumeuse — a popular operetta by Jacques Offenbach (1873); the elder Doria attended a performance the night he died. ↩
Palazzo — a grand Italian noble house or palace. Renting out floors of one's palazzo was a sign of reduced circumstances — acceptable for the ultra-rich Borgheses but scandalous for the relatively modest Antonellis. ↩
The Duke of Hamilton — Marie's first great passion; she fell deeply in love with William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, when she was around fourteen, during her time in Baden-Baden. The attachment was never reciprocated. ↩
Marie conjugates the verb aimer (to love) through all persons of the present tense and closes with "Amen" — a mock-liturgical joke noted in the LAN annotations. ↩