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Френсис Скотт Фицджеральд
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Packard – one of American motorcars
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Innsbruck – the capital of Tirol (a federal state of Austria), first mentioned in 1180
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Emperor Maximilian – here: the monument to Maximilian I (1459–1519), archduke of Austria, king of Germany and Holy Roman emperor, the first of the Habsburgs
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erbsen-suppe = pea soup
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würstchen = sausage
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helles of Pilsener = light Pilsener (beer)
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kaiser-schmarren = kaiser’s amusement
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gigolo – a young man paid or financially supported by a woman
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Birkkarspitze – a mountain peak in the vicinity of Innsbruck
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curate – in church, assistant to a rector (a priest in charge of a parish)
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Westmoreland County – a county in southwestern Pennsylvania
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Chesapeake Bay – the largest bay of the Atlantic Ocean in the eastern United States
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Andorra – one of the smallest independent states in Europe on the French-Spanish border in the Pyrenees
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couturières = fashion designers
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Boise – the capital of Idaho, US
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Gibraltar – British territory on the southern Mediterranean coast to the north-east of the Strait of Gibraltar (the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean)
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Cassino – a town in central Italy, southeast of Rome, founded in 312 BC
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Frosinone – a city in central Italy, first mentioned in the Roman times
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portières = heavy curtains (
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Corriere della Sera – one of the most famous Italian newspapers, published in Milan since 1876
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una novella di Sinclair Lewis ‘Wall Street’ nella quale autore analizza la vita sociale di una piccola citta Americana = Sinclair Lewis’ novel ‘Wall Street’ in which the author analyses the social life of a small American town (
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the Pincio – a hill in Rome, the place of rest
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cherubs – in religious literature, celestial winged beings with human or animal features
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fauns – in Roman mythology, rural gods represented by men with a goat’s horns, legs and tails
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the Porta San Sebastiano – Saint Sebastian’s Gates
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the Appian Way – the first ancient Roman road from Rome to Campania and southern Italy
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the forum – the most famous forum on the Capitoline hill in Rome
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Valentinos – Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926) was popular American movie actor of Italian origin
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Castelli dei Caesari = Caesar’s Castle
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the Excelsior – a fashionable hotel
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Michael Arlen (1895—1956) – British novelist and short story writer of Armenian origin
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trattoria – a café or restaurant in Italy
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spic = an Italian
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Livorno – a city on the Ligurian Sea in Tuscany, a region in central Italy
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Quirinal bar – the bar at the Quirinal, a fashionable hotel in Rome
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Sì = Yes
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the American Express – here: the office of American Express Company, the company providing financial and travel-related services all over the world
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Spanish Steps – a striking architectural phenomenon, the staircase on Piazza di Spagna in Rome