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49-8: =Sala de las Santificaciones=: one of the apartments of the
Vatican.

49-9: =el Rey de Roma=: i.e. the Pope.

50-1: =roquete y muceta=: _rochet_ (surplice with narrow sleeves)
_and_ purple _mantle_ (worn over the rochet).

50-2: =estados Romanos=: cf. note _a Roma_, p. 49, 2.

50-3: =cuatro reales de vellon=: four _reales_ make a _peseta_,
approximately of the same value as the _papetto_ (Italian), a papal coin
worth a little more than a _lira_ or approximately twenty cents of our
coin.

50-4: =puerta del Popolo=: (Italian: _Porta del Popolo_) one of the
gates of Rome.