smistimento (Italian) sorting or shunting place.
brigata (Italian) brigade.
spile a heavy stake or timber driven into the ground as a foundation or support.
horse ambulance an ambulance drawn by horses.
hernia the protrusion of all or part of an organ through a tear in the wall of the surrounding structure; especially, the protrusion of part of the intestine through the abdominal muscles; a rupture.
Zona di Guerra (Italian) war zone.
Il Generale Cadorna Italian general.
Aosta the Valle d’Aosta, a region of northwest Italy.
Black Forest a wooded mountain region in southwest Germany.
Carpathians the Carpathian Mountains, a mountain system in central Europe, extending southeast from south Poland through the Czech Republic and Ukraine into northeast Romania.
Via Manzoni a street in Milan.
capri bianca an Italian white wine.
Archbishop Ireland American archbishop, apparently, with whose case Henry is unfamiliar.
Béziers a city in south France.
Bacchus the Roman god of wine and revelry; identified with the Greek Dionysus.
… Frederico Enrico or Enrico Federico? Bassi wants to know if the Lieutenant’s name is Frederic Henry or Henry Frederic. (It is the former.)
cypress an evergreen, cone-bearing tree, with dark foliage and a distinctive symmetrical form.
