[PW] Re: Alexandre Dumas and Richelieu retry

[Brian Whatcott]

At 07:12 PM 11/17/2006,  Barbara, you wrote:
>Hi all
>
>///  Biretta is a
>square type hat, and zucchetto  means small gourd.
>
>///
>
>111 SPELLING QUESTION! In one of his most famous novels, the French writer
>Alexandre Dumas describes Cardinal Richelieu as 'wearing a cap, as
>cardinal's do, similar to a _'. What word, derived from Italian meaning
>'cap' or 'small dome', completes that quotation and is a name applied to a
>type of skullcap as mainly worn by Roman Catholic clergy? (This word must
>be spelt correctly!)
>
>
>Barbara


I find that Dumas used the word "zucchetto" in
I Borboni di Napoli, Libro I & II

The zucchetto was and is the skull cap worn by Cardinals & Pope.
I don't believe I have identified Dumas' most famous novel
  here however.


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!