While a gusting storm turns the cobbled streets of the Sicilian city of Noto into quicksilver rapids, black-suited footmen illumine Palazzo di Lorenzo Castelluccio's piano nobile with tall white candles, 30 tapers in the music room alone. Drenched dinner guests arrive, among them a photographer, an antiques dealer, a painter, a writer, and a composer. Restorative silver salvers of chilled Prosecco and hearty bruschetta are passed, and international politics dominates the conversation. Except for the visitors' attire-blue jeans and duck boots prevail-Ferdinando I and Maria Carolina might still rule the Two Sicilies, as their bosom friend Emma Hamilton, en déshabillée, strikes Grecian attitudes for Admiral Nelson.
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机译：一阵阵阵狂风将西西里的诺托鹅卵石铺成的街道变成了急流急流，而身着黑衣的步兵照亮了Palazzo di Lorenzo Castelluccio的钢琴，高高的白色蜡烛，仅在音乐室就变了30个锥度。湿透的晚餐客人到达，其中包括摄影师，古董商，画家，作家和作曲家。冷淡的普罗赛克（Prosecco）和丰盛的面包片（bruschetta）的复原式的白银通过了，国际政治主导了对话。除了游客穿着蓝色的牛仔裤和鸭皮靴外，费迪南多一世和玛丽亚·卡罗来纳州仍可能统治两个西西里岛，因为他们的怀抱朋友埃玛·汉密尔顿（en-déshabillée）对纳尔逊海军上将提出了希腊态度。
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