Eighty years before, the Salina palace had been a meeting place for those obscure pleasures which appealed to the dying eighteenth century; but the severe regency of the Princess Carolina, the neoreligious fervor of the Restoration, the straightforward sensuality of Don Fabrizio, had eventually caused its bizarre extravagances to be forgotten;
Hamazortzigarren mendeak, hilurren zela, bere atseginerako harm zituen plazer ilunetarako topaleku izan zen Salina jauregia larogei urte lehenago; baina Carolina printzesaren aginpide estua zela bide, Errestaurazio garaiko erlijiozaletasun berria zela bide, eta, orain, Don Fabrizioren haragikoitasuna-maliziarik gabea-zela bide, iraganeko ahulkeria aipagarri haiek ahaztuta zeuden.