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Demetti
An Italian opera singer who died while passing through the town years earlier and was buried under a chapel-shaped monument in the cemetery, now forgotten by everyone but still marking the spot where Startsev waits in vain for Yekaterina Ivanovna.
Reading notes
- Ionych §70 The Demetti monument
A chapel-shaped tomb for an Italian opera singer who died passing through the town years before and whom no one now remembers; Startsev waits beside it all night for a meeting that was only ever a joke.