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Page numbers, if alone, refer to the 492-page editions. Please feel free to add the 547-page-edition page numbers, using the syntax: n/n2 - where "n" is the 492-page and "n2" is the 547-page. Thanks.
Quadruple Alliance
195; joke regarding "in flagrante delicto";
- The War of the Quadruple Alliance was a minor European war fought between 1718 and 1720, mostly in Italy, between Spain on the one side, and the Quadruple Alliance of Austria, France, Great Britain, and the United Provinces. The Alliance between Austria, Britain, the Dutch Republic, and France, was formed to prevent Spain from altering the terms of the Peace of Utrecht (1713). When Philip V of Spain seized Sardinia and Sicily, the British fleet brought Austrian troops to Sicily and the French occupied northern Spain, and Philip was forced to renounce his claims in Italy. Wikipedia
Ferrante's "parable" expresses his contempt for the British in Italy, leveraging their "saving" Italy from the Spanish and holding it over the Italians.
Quarter Rossetti
84; in Cairo
491; chair; "Louis Quinze" is a term used to describe the style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XV of France, marked by the culmination of the rococo as expressed in flowing lines, rounded forms, and gracefully shell, flower, and other ornaments. [1]
