Prior to the Popes formal suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, Lorsagnes godfather Jos-Eusebio Camara, SJ functioned as a Jesuit procurator, those members of the society who represented the orders interests to the outside world, administered its properties and maintained its network. After the orders suppression, Fr. Camara and others both within and without the order went about rendering this service quietly, faithfully and often at great risk to their lives.

Lorsagne has used a few of the orders salvaged possessions that hold sentimental value for her godfather in the apartment in Rocca Sorrentina. Foremost among those souvenirs is a tiger skin. Given to the Jesuit by a Moghul viceroy in Hyderabad when Fr. Camara was in India, the skin stands as a symbol of the Hindu god Shivas role as controller of all powers in the world.

A gift of a tiger skin was a compliment of the highest order. Lorsagne uses the hide to dress a corner of the upstairs, placing it on the floor in hopes that her godfather will not take to wearing it andhis plague doctors disguise simultaneously.

The other end of the room is anchored by another sort of tiger skin: an early-18 ^th century Colonial American hooked rug presented to her companion Lucien Aristide de Robion-Castellane near Yorktown while he was serving as a Lieutenant in a Hussard squadron of the "Legion de Lauzun." Lucien's squadron played a role in deciding the Yorktown campaign in 1781. The pattern of tiger stripes in the hooked wool rug has the same meaning as the hide: courage and strengthcharacteristics of both Camara and Robion-Castellane.