Fabrice tourna la tête et reconnut cette petite esplanade garnie d’un parapet et dominant le lac, où si souvent, dans sa jeunesse, il s’était exposé à voir les mortaretti lui partir entre les jambes, ce qui faisait que le matin des jours de fête sa mère voulait le voir auprès d’elle.
Fabrizio turned his head and recognised that little terrace, adorned with a parapet and overlooking the lake, where so often, when he was a boy, he had risked his life to watch the mortaretti go off between his legs, with the result that on the mornings of public holidays his mother liked to see him by her side.