[310] de rojo y amarillo guirnaldas preciosas. The commoner word order is guirnaldas preciosas de rojo y amarillo.
[311] en otros, i.e., en otros cactus.
[312] remedaban. The subject is guirnaldas.
[313] Arauco, province of Chile, scene of the struggles between the Spaniards and the Araucanian Indians in Ercilla’s epic, La Araucana.
[314] que tal parece, for such it appears.
[315] estos instrumentos pedestres, i.e., las espuelas in line 4. The use of pedestre in the sense of the feet is not accurate.
[316] El pobre, i.e., animal.
[317] teatro de Carlos Alberto, theater in Buenos Aires.
[318] Bellini (Vincenzo), Italian composer, born in Catania, Sicily, in 1801. His most famous operas are I Puritani, La Sonnambula, and Norma. His music is characterized by sweetness and melancholy.
[319] ¡Casta Diva! one of the best known arias of the opera Norma, sung by the priestess Norma after whom the opera is named.