In love with the wine-jug
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— Ora, não custa sabê-lo; por aquele canjirão de vinho que aí lhe está fronteiro; não vedes que olhos que lhe deita?
— Oh, it costs nothing to know it: with that jug of wine standing across from him; don't you see the looks he gives it?
— Oh, it costs nothing to know it: with that jug of wine standing across from him; don't you see the looks he gives it?
The joke lands — Loredano is 'in love' with the wine-jug. Camp humor deflects the question; the men laugh, and the dangerous truth of the Italian's real gaze stays hidden.
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