Tristana by Benito Perez Galdos

Author:Benito Perez Galdos
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59017-792-1
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2014-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

*“Discovery reveals that only nothingness grows”: from Leopardi’s poem “Ad Angelo Mai.”

†A reference to Francesca di Rimini in Dante’s Inferno, who was damned for her illicit affair with the handsome brother of her deformed husband. The lovers create endless variations on their pet names for each other: Paca, Paquita, Panchita, Frasquita, Curra, Currita de Rimini—which recur throughout their letters and conversations.

‡A line from a play by the Duque de Rivas, from the scene in which Don Álvaro is about to elope with Leonor, who hesitates because of her feelings for her father.

§Saber más que Lepe (“to know more than Lepe”) is an idiom meaning “to be very shrewd.”

¶“Dear God! To die so young!”: from Violetta’s aria in act 3 of Verdi’s La Traviata.

**“Ah, Pisa, shame of the people!”: from Dante’s Inferno, canto 33, line 79.

†† “There we give each other our hands”: from the aria in act 1 of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

‡‡“Tongues confused, a language strained in anguish, with cadences of anger, shrill outcries”: from Dante’s Inferno, canto 3, lines 25–26, describing the entrance to hell.

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