[2] agenti di questura, police officers.
[3] Salomone di Caus, a celebrated French engineer, who died about 1626. There is a story to the effect that he was imprisoned on the charge of insanity.
[4] Da qualche tempo, Some time before.
X. VENI, VIDI... NON VICI!
(I CAME, SAW, BUT DID NOT CONQUER.)
[1] Ci si provò anche lei, eh, You also attempted it, did you?
[2] a cui pareva... pastoie, who was impatient to get married so as to be more independent.
[3] darsi bel tempo, enjoy himself.
[4] nato che fu, after the birth of.
[5] Monte Carlo, famous bathing and gambling resort on the Mediterranean coast between France and Italy, belonging to the principality of Monaco.