"Marchese"-- yes, that would do.

What a pity there were only four "canopy" marquises--"marchesi del baldacchino"-- in Rome with the rank of princes! That was exactly the combination of dignities Donna Tullia required for her husband.

But once a "marchese," if she was very charitable, and did something in the way of a public work, the Holy Father might condescend to make Del Ferice a "duca" in the ordinary course as a step in the nobility.

Donna Tullia dreamed many things that night, and she afterwards accomplished most of them, to the surprise of everybody, and, if the truth were told, to her own considerable astonishment..