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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 was still alive when Marie wrote this; he died on 6 November 1876. (Source: en.wikipedia «Giacomo Antonelli»; Treccani, Dizionario Biografico.) ↩
Giacometto — Italian diminutive of Giacomo (James); Marie's name for the young Doria. ↩
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. ↩