Bob weote
Farfalla and farfallone both mean butterfly; I suspect farfallone
refers to a big butterfly. Do we have an Italian speaker who can
comment on that?
The suffix -one means big, as in minestra, soup, minestrone, big
soup. Big butterfly.
Non piu andrai farfallone amoroso, Figaro referring to himself.
Literally it is a "big butterfly or moth," but figuratively,
according to my best Italian dictionary, it means "blunder, howler,"
which shows that Figaro's comment is doppio senso.
Jane McGary
Always liked Italian, relatively recent to opera
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