The Marchesa Balbi, a young woman of five-and-twenty, might still have passed for the most perfect type of leggiadria italiana, two or three years before the arrival of the Duchessa Sanseverina at Parma.
Balbi markesa andrea hogeita bost urteko neska gaztea zen, eta italiar edertasunaren eredurik perfektuenetzat har zitekeen oraindik, Sanseverina dukesa Parmara heldu baino bizpahiru urte lehenago.