“And no one lives here now?”
“No one, sir. The Duke goes to Como for the summer season.”[1]
Como is a city in northern Italy. Located in the Lombardia region, " the city, following the fortunes of Lombardy, came successively under Spanish, French, and Austrian rule, until it was liberated by the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1859 and became part of the Italian kingdom."[2]
[1] Wharton 1901, p. 2
[2] Britannica 2019, Nr. 2