You know there was once a branch of your family in the Neapolitan kingdom--at least so Giovanni says, and he is an honest fellow.

Their title was Marchese di San Giacinto; and if Giovanni liked to claim it, he has a right to the title still." "But those Saracinesca were extinct fifty years ago," objected the Prince, who knew his family history very well.
"Giovanni says they were not.

They were believed to be.

The last Marchese di San Giacinto fought under Napoleon.

He lost all he possessed--lands, money, everything--by confiscation, when Ferdinand was restored in 1815.
He was a rough man; he dropped his title, married a peasant's only daughter, became a peasant himself, and died obscurely in a village near Salerno.