12 ([return])
[ Ost und West, 1839, No. 42, p. 172. A memorial tablet was afterwards placed on this house.]
13 ([return])
[ The vineyard is called Petranka (Smichow, No. 169), and belongs, according to the "Bohemia" (1856, p. 118), to the merchant Lambert Popelka.]
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[ In the autograph score the duet is written on smaller paper, and somewhat more hastily than the other numbers, as was the case with Masetto's air.]
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[ Castil-Blaze has accepted these professional fables as literal truth (Molière Musicien, I., p. 310).]
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[ Da Ponte, Mem., I., 2, p. 103.]