Notes on L'Enfant de Volupté by Gabriele D'Annunzio.
P 58. Between the obelisk of the Trinity and the column of the Conception, I suspended in ex-voto my catholic and pagan heart.
She laughs at his sentence. He had a madrigal on his lips about his suspended heart; but he did not utter it, for he disliked prolonging the dialogue in this false and light tone and thus spoiling his intimate enjoyment. He was silent.