[1] The original manuscript contains fifty fragments transcribed onto eight large sheets of sketching paper held within a blue school notebook.

[6] The daughter of Leopoldo Popper, a Jewish businessman who ran a shipping company in Trieste, Amalia was tutored by Joyce between 1908 and 1909.

[7] Citing various biographic discrepancies,[8] other scholars dispute that the heroine of Giacomo is Amalia Popper, rather they say she is most likely an amalgam of several of Joyce's students in Trieste.

[11] Several of the shorter fragments in the text closely resemble Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" which leads Delville to connect it to Imagist poetry, a movement which was well underway at the time of Joyce's writing.

[12] In 1976, German artist Paul Wunderlich produced ten multicolored heliographs illustrating Giacomo Joyce.