I stayed at Vera's apartment for a month with my wife and my 10 month old daughter. When I arrived to the apartment I discovered it is right above one of the most notoriously loud restaurants of all of Rome, Meo Patacca, a tourist trap that offers cheap food, dining al fresco, and all night long live music. Presumably in spite of all regulations, the music goes on until midnight and so does the singing along by drunk customers. You can imagine the hell this was for a little child. For us it was no picnic either: the same set was played every night "O' sole mio", "Arrivederci Roma", "Funiculi' funicula'". Seriously, this was material for a comedy if it had not been painful. It was also impossible to keep the windows shut, as there is only one air conditioning unit in the whole house. The other side of the house looks on the kitchen of the restaurant, which was equally loud with the waitstaff fights (it's amazing how often they fight!).
The location of the house is what it is. I am upset at having found no mention of it being upstairs from an open-air restaurant with live music.