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152 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Italian > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

antidoto contro certe forme pericolose

Context:

Il collega di mio padre all Banca Comerciale, senatore Giacomo Ferretti, teneva nel loro..

Keywords:

...studio una civetta di porcellana dagli occhi provvisti di due lampadine eletrriche. Queste venivano accese ogni qualvolta si preannunciasse una visita del commendator Navone. Ferretti spiegava invariabilmente a mio padre che la civetta era l'unico antidoto contro certe forme... pericolose. Riferendomi al ballo del principe Eugenio Ruspoli, del quale ho narrato le chiassose vicende, vi fu chi rimpianse che una civetta non si fosse trasferita in quell'occasione dagli alberi del colle gianicolense nella villa. Sarebbe forse mutato più di un capitolo di storia contemporanea.

 

 

The answer of   See profile was rated best

an antidote against any dangerous practices/actions

My comment:

a safeguard against dangerous actions that could be taken; had they done this before, they would have changed the course of history; the history would have been different