the Capitoline, Aventine, Quirinal, Esquiline, Coelian, and Palatine. These names will perforce frequent1
Boccanera mansion, Julia Street.
2
One of the seven hills on which Rome is built. The other six are the Capitoline, Aventine, Quirinal, Esquiline, Coelian, and Palatine. These names will perforce frequently occur in the present narrative.
3
M. Zola likens the Corso to the Rue St. Honore in Paris, but I have thought that an English comparison would be preferable in the present version. – Trans.
4
Formerly the residence of the Papal Vice-Chancellors.
5
It is as well to point out at once that a palazzo is not a palace as we understand the term, but rather a mansion. – Trans.
6
St. Paul-beyond-the-walls.
7
In England we call the press the fourth estate, but in France and elsewhere the term is applied to the working classes, and in that sense must be taken here. – Trans.
