farfallone

Updated: June 11, 2025

"The farfallone amoroso basked in the soft smiles and sunny looks of the Countess Almaviva; we met but the cold, impassive look of Talleyrand, the piercing and penetrating stare of Savary, or the ambiguous smile, half menace, half mockery, of Monsieur Fouché.

Charles James Lever - Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1