[4] The title of the painting and its author are not credited on the cover – neither in the original pressing nor in any of the subsequent reprints of the album on CD or vinyl.

The album is a comparison of two apparently distant but nonetheless similar peoples who have both gone through colonization, the Sardinians and the Native Americans.

These sounds also reappear in other sections through the album (the people involved in the hunting party are not credited).

The intro to "Hotel Supramonte" is freely based on "Summer '68" by Pink Floyd's Richard Wright (from Atom Heart Mother), deliberately inserted by keyboard player Mark Harris as a further Floydian reference, in addition to his arrangement for "Ave Maria" (see below).

[10] The line-up features, among others, top Italian session men such as Gabriele "Lele" Melotti, Pier Michelatti, Aldo Banfi and Massimo Luca, as well as De Andrè's wife Dori Ghezzi and co-producer Oscar Prudente on backing vocals.