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Pietruccio: Italian diminutive of Pietro — "little Pietro." The coincidence of the name with Pietro Antonelli cannot have escaped Marie. ↩
Pope Pius IX's family name was Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti (1792–1878). He was still reigning at this time, though gravely ill. ↩
Louis XIV-style shoes: heeled, with a buckle or decorative element — a period revival fashion popular in the 1870s. ↩
Patria: Italian for "fatherland" — the sacred term of the Risorgimento. ↩
Crown Prince Humbert (later King Umberto I, r. 1878–1900) and Princess Margherita of Savoy (later Queen Margherita), who was enormously popular in Italy. ↩
The Pincio: the public gardens on the Pincian Hill in Rome, a fashionable promenade. Marie and Pietro met there during her visits to Rome. ↩
Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli (1806–1876), Pietro's uncle and the powerful Secretary of State to Pope Pius IX, was often compared to Cardinal Richelieu for his political authority. ↩
The Risorgimento — the movement for Italian unification — culminated in September 1870, when Italian troops annexed Rome, ending the Pope's temporal power. Marie was born in 1858, so would have been twelve; "ten years earlier" is an approximation. ↩