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  “What’s in the basket?” . . . “Ricotta”: Sicilian saying, roughly equivalent to “What’s two plus two?” “Four.”

  The Fable of the Transformed Son: “La Favola del figlio cambiato,” a story by Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936).

  “Alas! . . . What shall I do? . . .”: OF, I, 41.

  Sitting on a rock . . . would be: OF, X 34. My translation.

  Notes by Stephen Sartarelli