J'autorise un éditeur intelligent à supprimer les pages où je répété les mêmes lamentations sur Antonelli dans les livres précédents et ici. Laissez quelques pages pour en donner une idée et supprimez le reste, au fait, non, laissez tout, le lecteur sautera.
Poznámky
Marie notes the coincidence — Torlonia was introduced exactly one month before this entry (13 March), and here she is again on the 13th, in Naples, thinking of him. ↩
Holy Thursday (Jeudi Saint) — the Thursday of Holy Week, commemorating the Last Supper. Marie's arrival in Naples coincides with the solemn days before Easter. Her Russian Orthodox background gives her a keener sense of this. ↩
Manger maigre — "eating lean": the Catholic and Orthodox Lenten practice of abstaining from meat and rich foods on Fridays and throughout Lent. ↩
«culpa mea, culpa mea, culpa mea» — Latin: "my fault, my fault, my fault" — from the Confiteor, the opening prayer of the Latin Mass: «mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa» ("through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault"). Marie reverses the word order, perhaps from imperfect memory or for rhythmic effect. ↩