Translation of Chapter XII, missing in the Russian edition - The translation was made from the English edition, which in turn was translated from the Italian original. Which could accordingly affect the quality of the translation. The novel “Claudia Particella, l'amante del cardinale” (“Claudia Particella, l'amante del cardinale”), which was published with a continuation during 1910, was radically anticlerical and a few years later, after Mussolini’s truce with the Vatican, was withdrawn from appeals.