{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "slug": "tales-and-stories",
  "title": "Tales and Stories",
  "author": "Mary Shelley",
  "language": "en",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "Narrator",
      "aliases": [
        "I"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed first-person narrator who recounts the visit to Lake Albano and records Countess Atanasia’s story."
    },
    {
      "name": "Countess Atanasia D——",
      "aliases": [
        "Countess Atanasia",
        "the countess"
      ],
      "description": "A gracious woman who tells the narrator the tragic story of Maria and Anina."
    },
    {
      "name": "Maria",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Anina’s older sister, who becomes a nursing nun at Santa Chiara and is executed in Anina’s place."
    },
    {
      "name": "Anina",
      "aliases": [
        "Nina"
      ],
      "description": "Maria’s younger sister, who loves Domenico Baldi and later becomes a nun at Santa Chiara."
    },
    {
      "name": "Andrea",
      "aliases": [
        "old Andrea"
      ],
      "description": "The farmer father of Maria and Anina."
    },
    {
      "name": "Domenico Baldi",
      "aliases": [
        "Domenico"
      ],
      "description": "An outlaw from Nemi who loves Anina and leads an attack on the French."
    },
    {
      "name": "The French commanding officer",
      "aliases": [
        "the officer"
      ],
      "description": "Oversees Anina’s capture and permits Maria to visit her."
    },
    {
      "name": "The priest",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed priest summoned to hear a condemned prisoner’s confession."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s companion",
      "aliases": [
        "the lovely countess"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed member of the narrator’s party who comments on Atanasia’s story."
    },
    {
      "name": "A peasant hunter",
      "aliases": [
        "the hunter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed farmer and hunter seen by Lake Albano."
    },
    {
      "name": "A contadina",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed peasant woman returning from the village."
    },
    {
      "name": "A pedlar",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed seller displaying pictures and prints."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Count of Eboli",
      "aliases": [
        "Count Eboli",
        "Count Ferdinando Eboli",
        "Ferdinando Eboli",
        "Ferdinand"
      ],
      "description": "A Neapolitan nobleman whose lookalike usurps his identity. He escapes imprisonment, reunites with Adalinda, and regains his honours."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Marchese Spina",
      "aliases": [
        "the Marchese",
        "the baron"
      ],
      "description": "A high-ranking official, friend of Eboli’s father, and Adalinda’s father; he initially believes the impostor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Adalinda",
      "aliases": [
        "Signorina"
      ],
      "description": "Spina’s daughter and Eboli’s betrothed, who exposes the impostor and reunites with Eboli."
    },
    {
      "name": "Murat",
      "aliases": [
        "Gioacchino",
        "the king",
        "the King of Naples"
      ],
      "description": "King of Naples, who commissions Eboli’s mission and later restores his honours."
    },
    {
      "name": "The false Count Eboli",
      "aliases": [
        "the impostor",
        "the pretender",
        "the deceiver",
        "the counterfeit"
      ],
      "description": "Ludovico, Eboli’s illegitimate elder brother, who steals his identity and dies during the retreat from Moscow."
    },
    {
      "name": "A peasant girl",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman who finds and frees Eboli."
    },
    {
      "name": "A child",
      "aliases": [
        "the little fellow"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed child with the peasant girl who helps tend Eboli."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old aunt",
      "aliases": [
        "Adalinda’s aunt"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed blind and deaf relative who accompanies Adalinda as her duenna."
    },
    {
      "name": "A French officer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed high-ranking Frenchman who reports Eboli’s apparent double to Murat."
    },
    {
      "name": "A noted bandit",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed prisoner of Eboli, reported to have escaped."
    },
    {
      "name": "Betta Tossi",
      "aliases": [
        "old Betta Tossi"
      ],
      "description": "A village woman who fears the French have captured her missing son."
    },
    {
      "name": "The son of Betta Tossi",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed young man suspected of joining Domenico Baldi’s outlaws."
    },
    {
      "name": "An old man from Nemi",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed father who is shot while bringing food to besieged outlaws."
    },
    {
      "name": "A French soldier",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed soldier who shoots the old man from Nemi."
    },
    {
      "name": "The peasant narrator of Domenico’s escape",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed villager who says he saw Domenico escape the French at Rocca Giovane."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Marchese Spina’s old aunt’s household servants",
      "aliases": [
        "Adalinda’s servants"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed attendants secretly replaced by the impostor’s agents."
    },
    {
      "name": "The elder brother of Ferdinand",
      "aliases": [
        "Ludovico"
      ],
      "description": "The illegitimate elder son of the old Count Eboli, who resents Ferdinand, usurps his identity, and later dies saving him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen Caroline",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The queen to whom Adalinda appeals; she brings the imposture to Murat’s attention."
    },
    {
      "name": "Katusthius Ziani",
      "aliases": [
        "Katusthius",
        "the Moreot",
        "the son of Ziani"
      ],
      "description": "A Moreot and Dmitri’s sworn brother, who plots to claim his family inheritance and seize Cyril’s child."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dmitri of the Evil Eye",
      "aliases": [
        "Dmitri",
        "the Albanian",
        "the Arnaoot",
        "the klepht"
      ],
      "description": "A feared Albanian bandit who abducts Constans, grows attached to him, and protects him after learning he is his grandson."
    },
    {
      "name": "Helena",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Dmitri’s deceased Sciote wife, whose daughter was stolen in a raid."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dmitri’s daughter",
      "aliases": [
        "the infant daughter",
        "the girl"
      ],
      "description": "Dmitri and Helena’s daughter, stolen young and raised as Zella; she becomes Constans’s mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cyril Ziani",
      "aliases": [
        "Cyril",
        "Cyril Ziani of Corinth"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy Corinthian merchant, Zella’s husband and Constans’s father, who searches for his abducted son."
    },
    {
      "name": "Zella",
      "aliases": [
        "Dmitri’s daughter"
      ],
      "description": "Cyril’s wife and Constans’s mother, raised as the daughter of the Mainote Capitano of Kardamyla."
    },
    {
      "name": "Constans",
      "aliases": [
        "little Constans",
        "the boy"
      ],
      "description": "The young son of Cyril and Zella, abducted by Katusthius and protected by Dmitri."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old Count Eboli",
      "aliases": [
        "Count Eboli’s father"
      ],
      "description": "The deceased father of Ferdinand and Ludovico, who acknowledged Ludovico as his son."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ludovico’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "the wronged mother"
      ],
      "description": "Ludovico’s mother, who resented the old Count Eboli and raised her son to hate him and Ferdinand."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cyril’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "the rich merchant of Corinth",
        "the deceased Ziani"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy Corinthian merchant who raised Katusthius and left his estate to Cyril."
    },
    {
      "name": "Katusthius’s intended bride",
      "aliases": [
        "the Fanariote beauty"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Fanar woman Katusthius was about to marry before he fell into poverty."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cyril’s nurse",
      "aliases": [
        "the nurse"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman caring for Constans who witnesses his abduction."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cyril’s domestic",
      "aliases": [
        "a domestic"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who directs Cyril to Zella at the chapel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cyril’s household attendants",
      "aliases": [
        "the domestics",
        "the menials"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed servants who search for Constans and guard Zella."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Capitano of Kardamyla",
      "aliases": [
        "old Camaraz",
        "Camaraz",
        "Zella’s father",
        "the Mainote"
      ],
      "description": "Zella’s father, a Mainote chief and mariner who joins the search for Constans."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Capitano’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Zella’s grandmother"
      ],
      "description": "The Capitano’s elderly mother, rescued from a besieged fortress."
    },
    {
      "name": "The paramana",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed attendant to the Capitano’s family."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Sciote widow",
      "aliases": [
        "the widow of a wealthy islander"
      ],
      "description": "Helena’s mother and Zella’s grandmother, whose daughter is killed and granddaughter taken in a raid."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Protoklepht",
      "aliases": [
        "the bandit chief"
      ],
      "description": "The leader of Albanian bandits travelling with Katusthius and Dmitri; the text does not establish whether he is Dmitri."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Caloyers",
      "aliases": [
        "the monks"
      ],
      "description": "Monks at Zitza and the Prophet Elias who shelter Constans and resist Katusthius."
    },
    {
      "name": "The priest at Mosme",
      "aliases": [
        "a priest"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed priest who hosts Cyril and Camaraz at Mosme."
    },
    {
      "name": "The disabled Arnaoot",
      "aliases": [
        "the injured Arnaoot"
      ],
      "description": "An injured Albanian bandit who tells Cyril and Camaraz where Dmitri went."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Belouk-Bashee of Sagori",
      "aliases": [
        "the Belouk-Bashee"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed local leader Katusthius seeks to enlist against Dmitri."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Sagorians",
      "aliases": [
        "the Sagorian troop"
      ],
      "description": "People of Sagori led by Katusthius against Dmitri’s band."
    },
    {
      "name": "A Mainote crewman",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the Mainotes"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed member of Camaraz’s party who asks Cyril to rescue the Capitano’s family."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henry IV of France",
      "aliases": [
        "Henry",
        "the king",
        "the monarch",
        "my liege"
      ],
      "description": "King of France and Constance’s guardian, who seeks to reconcile her with Gaspar."
    },
    {
      "name": "Constance de Villeneuve",
      "aliases": [
        "Constance",
        "the Countess de Villeneuve",
        "the young countess"
      ],
      "description": "A young heiress who loves Gaspar despite their families’ feud and considers becoming a nun."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gaspar de Vaudemont",
      "aliases": [
        "Gaspar",
        "De Vaudemont",
        "the young knight",
        "the cavalier"
      ],
      "description": "A young knight and Henry IV’s favourite, in love with Constance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Manon",
      "aliases": [
        "the waiting-woman",
        "the suivante",
        "the chief attendant"
      ],
      "description": "Constance’s attendant, who accompanies her to St. Catherine’s bed and informs the king of her plan."
    },
    {
      "name": "Constance’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "the Count of Villeneuve"
      ],
      "description": "Constance’s father, killed by Gaspar’s father during the civil wars."
    },
    {
      "name": "Constance’s brothers",
      "aliases": [
        "her two brothers"
      ],
      "description": "Constance’s two brothers, killed during the civil wars."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gaspar’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The man who killed Constance’s father during the civil wars."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gaspar’s mother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Gaspar’s mother, who cursed the house of Villeneuve."
    },
    {
      "name": "The boatman",
      "aliases": [
        "the man in waiting"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man waiting to carry Constance and Manon across the Loire."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saint Catherine",
      "aliases": [
        "the saint"
      ],
      "description": "The saint whose bed above the Loire is believed to guide sleepers through dreams."
    },
    {
      "name": "Horace Neville",
      "aliases": [
        "Neville"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy, sensitive man who tells Juliet about Ellen Burnet and their childhood friendship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Juliet",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Horace Neville’s younger cousin and betrothed, who promises to preserve Ellen’s grave."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ellen Burnet",
      "aliases": [
        "Ellen",
        "Miss Eversham",
        "the Hon. Miss Eversham"
      ],
      "description": "Clarice Eversham, who survives a shipwreck, lives as Ellen Burnet, befriends young Horace, and requests an unmarked grave."
    },
    {
      "name": "Horace’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "Neville’s father"
      ],
      "description": "Horace’s father, remembered by him during his childhood flight."
    },
    {
      "name": "Horace’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Neville’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "Horace’s mother, remembered during his childhood flight from school."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Eton tormentor",
      "aliases": [
        "Horace’s tyrant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed older schoolboy who abuses Horace and kills his pet bullfinch."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Eton tormentor’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "the father of Horace’s tormentor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man whose arrival interrupts the tormentor’s abuse of Horace."
    },
    {
      "name": "An elder Eton boy",
      "aliases": [
        "the elder boy"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed schoolboy who sees Horace fleeing Eton but does not pursue him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ellen’s attendant",
      "aliases": [
        "the young girl"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young servant at Ellen’s cottage who serves Horace breakfast."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lewis Elmore",
      "aliases": [
        "Lewis",
        "Mr. Elmore"
      ],
      "description": "Clarice’s fiancé and Horace’s rescuer, who searches for Clarice and learns she lived as Ellen Burnet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Eversham",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Clarice’s father, who dies after putting her into a rescue boat from the burning St. Mary."
    },
    {
      "name": "Clarice Eversham",
      "aliases": [
        "Clarice",
        "Miss Eversham"
      ],
      "description": "Lord Eversham’s daughter and Lewis Elmore’s beloved, who survives the shipwreck under the name Ellen Burnet."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Earl of D——",
      "aliases": [
        "the Earl of D"
      ],
      "description": "Owner of Elmore Park and father of a son who helps Horace after a hunting accident."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lewis Elmore’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Lewis’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "The mother who cared for Clarice during her childhood."
    },
    {
      "name": "The captain of the Bellerophon",
      "aliases": [
        "the captain"
      ],
      "description": "The captain who oversees the St. Mary rescue and later recounts what he remembers of Clarice."
    },
    {
      "name": "The commander of the Bellerophon",
      "aliases": [
        "the commander"
      ],
      "description": "The commander of the Bellerophon, whom Lewis visits seeking news of Clarice."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nancy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A girl who gives Ellen’s letter to the sexton after her burial."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Cooke",
      "aliases": [
        "the sexton"
      ],
      "description": "The sexton at Old Windsor who keeps Ellen’s farewell letter for Horace."
    },
    {
      "name": "Emilie de Lagny",
      "aliases": [
        "Emilie",
        "the Lady de Lagny"
      ],
      "description": "Margaret of Navarre’s former maid of honour, who takes her husband’s place in prison so he can escape."
    },
    {
      "name": "Margaret, Queen of Navarre",
      "aliases": [
        "Queen Margaret",
        "Margaret"
      ],
      "description": "A queen and Francis’s sister who wagers on Emilie’s fidelity and secures her husband’s pardon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Francis",
      "aliases": [
        "the king",
        "the royal brother"
      ],
      "description": "King of France and Margaret’s brother, who pardons de Lagny after learning of Emilie’s sacrifice."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Sire de Lagny",
      "aliases": [
        "Enguerrard de Lagny",
        "De Lagny"
      ],
      "description": "Emilie’s husband, imprisoned on a false treason charge, who escapes and proves his innocence."
    },
    {
      "name": "Robinet Leroux",
      "aliases": [
        "Robinet"
      ],
      "description": "Emilie’s page, who escapes with de Lagny."
    },
    {
      "name": "The jailor",
      "aliases": [
        "the jailer"
      ],
      "description": "De Lagny’s unnamed jailor, who brings Margaret a message from the knight."
    },
    {
      "name": "A French cavalier",
      "aliases": [
        "the messenger"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed knight who reports a victory to Francis and is revealed as de Lagny."
    },
    {
      "name": "Manfred",
      "aliases": [
        "Manfred, King of Naples"
      ],
      "description": "Deceased king of Naples whose memory inspires the Ghibellines."
    },
    {
      "name": "Corradino",
      "aliases": [
        "Conradin"
      ],
      "description": "Manfred’s young nephew and claimant to the Swabian throne, whose arrival gives the Ghibellines hope."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles d’Anjou",
      "aliases": [
        "Charles",
        "King of Naples"
      ],
      "description": "Guelph leader and ruler of Naples, who prepares to fight Corradino."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monna Gegia de’ Becari",
      "aliases": [
        "Monna Gegia",
        "Gegia"
      ],
      "description": "An old Florentine Guelph married to Ghibelline shoemaker Cincolo; she mourns their murdered child."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cincolo",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Ghibelline shoemaker and Gegia’s husband, who restrains his anger for her sake."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mari",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man who fed the lions before Monte Aperto; Gegia suspects he poisoned them."
    },
    {
      "name": "Arrigo dei Elisei",
      "aliases": [
        "Arrigo"
      ],
      "description": "Gegia and Cincolo’s only child, murdered at sixteen in Manfred’s cause."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ricciardo de’ Rossini",
      "aliases": [
        "Ricciardo",
        "Ricciardo de’ Rossini of Milan"
      ],
      "description": "A young Ghibelline who takes refuge with Cincolo and Gegia under an assumed identity and brings news of Corradino."
    },
    {
      "name": "Buzeccha",
      "aliases": [
        "Buzeccha the chess-player",
        "the Saracen"
      ],
      "description": "A famous Saracen chess player in Florence who converses with Ricciardo."
    },
    {
      "name": "Count Guido Novelle de’ Giudi",
      "aliases": [
        "Count Guido Novelle"
      ],
      "description": "A former Vicare of Florence in whose presence Buzeccha played chess."
    },
    {
      "name": "Monna Lisabetta",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A woman Gegia speculates may be passing during the May festival."
    },
    {
      "name": "Messer Giani dei Agli",
      "aliases": [
        "Giani dei Agli"
      ],
      "description": "A weaver whom Gegia mentions for his role at Pagibonzi."
    },
    {
      "name": "The mother of Corradino",
      "aliases": [
        "Corradino’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed princess who raised Corradino and reluctantly consented to his expedition."
    },
    {
      "name": "The two beautiful dogs",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Francis’s dogs, present in his apartment."
    },
    {
      "name": "The child with Ellen",
      "aliases": [
        "the little girl"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed girl who recognizes Horace and tells him about Ellen’s letter."
    },
    {
      "name": "Messer Beppe",
      "aliases": [
        "Giuseppe de’ Bosticchi",
        "Beppe de’ Bosticchi",
        "Giuseppe Bosticchi",
        "Bosticchi"
      ],
      "description": "A Guelph Florentine whom Ricciardo accuses of murdering Arrigo; Bosticchi denies it."
    },
    {
      "name": "Messer Guielmo Lostendardo",
      "aliases": [
        "Lostendardo",
        "Messer Guielmo"
      ],
      "description": "A former friend of Manfred who imprisons Despina and leads Corradino to execution, later repenting in a convent."
    },
    {
      "name": "Despina dei Elisei",
      "aliases": [
        "Despina",
        "Madonna Despina dei Elisei"
      ],
      "description": "Arrigo’s daughter, raised by Cincolo and Gegia, who disguises herself as Ricciardo to seek Lostendardo’s support for Corradino."
    },
    {
      "name": "Countess Elizabeth",
      "aliases": [
        "the Countess Elizabeth, the mother of Corradino"
      ],
      "description": "Corradino’s mother, who urges Despina to approach Lostendardo."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen Sibilla",
      "aliases": [
        "Sibilla"
      ],
      "description": "Manfred’s wife, whom Despina served at court."
    },
    {
      "name": "Frederic of Austria",
      "aliases": [
        "Frederic"
      ],
      "description": "An ally of Corradino who accompanies his army."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pope Clement IV",
      "aliases": [
        "Clement IV",
        "Clement"
      ],
      "description": "Corradino’s enemy, who predicts his defeat; Despina calls him Manfred’s murderer."
    },
    {
      "name": "A Frangipani pursuer",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the family of Frangipani"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Frangipani who captures Corradino and delivers him to Charles."
    },
    {
      "name": "A Provençal judge",
      "aliases": [
        "one of Corradino’s judges"
      ],
      "description": "The only judge to condemn Corradino; Robert of Flanders kills him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Robert of Flanders",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Charles d’Anjou’s brother-in-law, who kills the judge who condemns Corradino."
    },
    {
      "name": "Juliet (daughter of the Marchese Torella)",
      "aliases": [
        "Juliet"
      ],
      "description": "The Marchese Torella’s daughter, raised alongside the narrator of “Transformation” and eventually betrothed to him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator of “Transformation”",
      "aliases": [
        "I",
        "Guido",
        "Guido il Cortese"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Genoese narrator who recounts his life, body exchange with a dwarf, and eventual marriage to Juliet."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Marchese Torella",
      "aliases": [
        "Torella"
      ],
      "description": "A Genoese noble exiled during political upheaval who entrusts his daughter Juliet to a friend."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s father in “Transformation”",
      "aliases": [
        "my father"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s widowed father, who raises him and becomes Juliet’s guardian."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s older cousin in “Transformation”",
      "aliases": [
        "a cousin of mine"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed older cousin who tries to claim Juliet as his bride."
    },
    {
      "name": "Winzy",
      "aliases": [
        "the scholar",
        "the pupil of Cornelius"
      ],
      "description": "A poor scholar who drinks half of Cornelius Agrippa’s elixir and believes he becomes immortal."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cornelius Agrippa",
      "aliases": [
        "Cornelius",
        "the alchymist",
        "the philosopher",
        "the adept"
      ],
      "description": "A renowned alchemist and Winzy’s master, who dies before drinking his second batch of elixir."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bertha",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Winzy’s childhood friend and wife, who grows old while he remains youthful."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bertha’s father",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A respectable man who dies of fever, leaving Bertha an orphan."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bertha’s mother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Bertha’s mother, who dies of fever."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old lady of the castle",
      "aliases": [
        "Bertha’s protectress",
        "the old dame",
        "the old crone",
        "the high-born hag"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy, childless woman who adopts Bertha and opposes her relationship with Winzy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Albert Hoffer",
      "aliases": [
        "Albert"
      ],
      "description": "A young man favoured by Bertha’s protectress as a possible match for Bertha."
    },
    {
      "name": "The page of the old lady",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed page who attends the old lady."
    },
    {
      "name": "Winzy’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "my mother"
      ],
      "description": "Winzy’s mother, who welcomes Bertha when she flees to marry him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Winzy’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "my father"
      ],
      "description": "Winzy’s father, who welcomes Bertha into their cottage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The seven sleepers",
      "aliases": [
        "the Seven Sleepers"
      ],
      "description": "Legendary sleepers cited by Winzy as an example of a more bearable long sleep."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nourjahad",
      "aliases": [
        "the fabled Nourjahad"
      ],
      "description": "A legendary figure cited by Winzy while reflecting on endless life."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator of “Transformation”’s father’s wealthy friend",
      "aliases": [
        "a wealthy Genoese noble"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed nobleman, identified as the Marchese Torella, who leaves his daughter in a friend’s care."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles VI of France",
      "aliases": [
        "Charles the Sixth"
      ],
      "description": "The French king during Guido’s stay in Paris, described as intermittently insane and controlled by others."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Queen of France",
      "aliases": [
        "the queen"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed French queen who withdraws with the dauphin after the Duke of Orleans is murdered."
    },
    {
      "name": "The dauphin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed heir to the French throne."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Burgundy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The duke who murders the Duke of Orleans."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Orleans",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A duke murdered by the Duke of Burgundy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Guido’s Parisian companions",
      "aliases": [
        "my young friends",
        "my comrades",
        "my reckless companions"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed young associates of Guido who accompany him back to Genoa."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator of “The Swiss Peasant”",
      "aliases": [
        "I"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed narrator who hears Fanny Chaumont’s story while travelling with Ashburn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ashburn",
      "aliases": [
        "my friend Ashburn",
        "the painter"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s painter friend, who introduces Fanny’s story."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fanny Chaumont",
      "aliases": [
        "Fanny"
      ],
      "description": "A Bernese orphan raised by the de Marvilles, who loves Louis and is eventually reunited and married to him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis Chaumont",
      "aliases": [
        "Louis",
        "Chaumont"
      ],
      "description": "Fanny’s husband, a peasant uprising leader who later reforms through military service."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fanny’s child",
      "aliases": [
        "the child",
        "the little plump fellow"
      ],
      "description": "The young child of Fanny and Louis."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wife of the chateau owner",
      "aliases": [
        "Madame de Marville",
        "Fanny’s protectress",
        "her benefactress"
      ],
      "description": "The de Marville wife who raises Fanny and is Henry’s mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "The owner of the chateau",
      "aliases": [
        "Monsieur de Marville",
        "M. de Marville",
        "the governor"
      ],
      "description": "The aristocratic governor who orders Louis away and later returns after the uprising."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henry de Marville",
      "aliases": [
        "Henry",
        "the young seigneur",
        "the chevalier"
      ],
      "description": "The de Marvilles’ son, who loves Fanny and is saved by her and Louis during the uprising."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fanny’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "her father"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Swiss peasant killed in an avalanche."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fanny’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "her mother"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Swiss peasant killed in an avalanche."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fanny’s brothers and sisters",
      "aliases": [
        "her brothers and sisters"
      ],
      "description": "Fanny’s unnamed siblings, killed in an avalanche."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "his father"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man driven from his home by a feudal tyrant who teaches Louis resentment of oppression."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "his mother"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who dies broken-hearted after her family is driven into poverty."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis’s former feudal oppressor",
      "aliases": [
        "a feudal tyrant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed landowner who drives Louis’s family from their home."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old lame gardener",
      "aliases": [
        "the gardener"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly, lame servant who drives the de Marvilles’ cart during their flight."
    },
    {
      "name": "A peasant who helps Fanny",
      "aliases": [
        "the peasant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed villager who offers the fleeing party another cart."
    },
    {
      "name": "The domestic who brings news",
      "aliases": [
        "a domestic"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who reports that the unrest has ended."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator of “The Invisible Girl”",
      "aliases": [
        "I"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed narrator who finds a Welsh tower and recounts Henry Vernon and Rosina’s story."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old woman of the tower",
      "aliases": [
        "the good dame",
        "the hostess"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who tends the tower and shelters the narrator; she is a fisherman’s mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Henry Vernon",
      "aliases": [
        "Henry"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Peter’s son, who loves Rosina and searches for her after she disappears."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rosina",
      "aliases": [
        "the Invisible Girl",
        "Henry’s beloved"
      ],
      "description": "An orphan raised by Sir Peter who hides in a Welsh tower after persecution and reunites with Henry."
    },
    {
      "name": "The elder fisherman",
      "aliases": [
        "the father of a numerous family"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed fisherman who rows Henry toward the coast."
    },
    {
      "name": "The younger fisherman",
      "aliases": [
        "the old woman’s son",
        "the daring lad"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young fisherman who joins Henry’s dangerous voyage."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man who bales out the boat",
      "aliases": [
        "the companion"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed crewman who spots the tower’s beacon and guides the boat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Peter Vernon",
      "aliases": [
        "Sir Peter",
        "the old baronet"
      ],
      "description": "Henry’s widowed father, who drives Rosina away and later accepts her union with Henry."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Bainbridge",
      "aliases": [
        "Sir Peter’s widow sister",
        "the odious aunt"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Peter’s sister, who helps persecute Rosina and later leaves."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wealthy suitor",
      "aliases": [
        "Rosina’s richest admirer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed rich man selected as Rosina’s prospective husband; she refuses him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Bainbridge’s maid",
      "aliases": [
        "the maid"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed attendant who betrays Rosina’s letter to Henry."
    },
    {
      "name": "The servant who sees Rosina leave",
      "aliases": [
        "a servant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who sees Rosina cross the park."
    },
    {
      "name": "The fisherman’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "the hostess at the cottage"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who feeds and shelters Henry and the fishermen."
    },
    {
      "name": "The fisherman’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "the host’s son"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young man who accompanies Henry and the sailors to the tower."
    },
    {
      "name": "The fisherman’s family",
      "aliases": [
        "the family"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed coastal household that shelters Henry and the fishermen."
    },
    {
      "name": "The stranger girl",
      "aliases": [
        "the female figure"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman seen near the tower and suspected by villagers to be the Invisible Girl."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator of “The Brother and Sister”",
      "aliases": [
        "I"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed narrator who tells the story of Lorenzo and Flora Mancini."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ugo Mancini",
      "aliases": [
        "Ugo"
      ],
      "description": "A Sienese exile and father of Lorenzo and Flora, who dies impoverished in exile."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lorenzo Mancini",
      "aliases": [
        "Lorenzo"
      ],
      "description": "Ugo’s son and Flora’s brother, banished after challenging Fabian; he entrusts Flora to Fabian’s care."
    },
    {
      "name": "Flora Mancini",
      "aliases": [
        "Flora"
      ],
      "description": "Lorenzo’s sister and ward of Count Fabian, whom she eventually loves while remaining devoted to her brother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Count Fabian dei Tolomei",
      "aliases": [
        "Count Fabian",
        "Fabian"
      ],
      "description": "The young Tolomei head who banishes Lorenzo, becomes Flora’s guardian, falls in love with her, and protects her."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Countess de’ Tolomei",
      "aliases": [
        "the countess",
        "Fabian’s mother"
      ],
      "description": "Fabian’s mother, who resents and mistreats Flora because she is a Mancini."
    },
    {
      "name": "The prince of France",
      "aliases": [
        "the royal traveller"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed French prince whom Fabian’s party goes to meet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old Sandra",
      "aliases": [
        "Sandra",
        "the old cassiére",
        "the housekeeper"
      ],
      "description": "The elderly housekeeper at the Tolomei villa who befriends Flora and summons help after Fabian’s accident."
    },
    {
      "name": "The peasant farmer at the villa",
      "aliases": [
        "the peasant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed farmer living with his family at the Tolomei villa."
    },
    {
      "name": "The peasants at the villa",
      "aliases": [
        "the peasant’s family"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed family living with the farmer at the Tolomei villa."
    },
    {
      "name": "The physician",
      "aliases": [
        "the leech"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed physician called to treat Fabian after his riding accident."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fabian’s friends",
      "aliases": [
        "his friends"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed companions who visit Fabian during his recovery and ride with him to Siena."
    },
    {
      "name": "Flora’s companions",
      "aliases": [
        "the young ladies",
        "the attendants"
      ],
      "description": "Young women in the Tolomei household who befriend Flora."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Tolomei followers",
      "aliases": [
        "Fabian’s followers"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed supporters who help Fabian drive Lorenzo from the lists and imprison him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The women who tell Flora of Lorenzo’s imprisonment",
      "aliases": [
        "several women"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed women who report Lorenzo’s imprisonment to Flora."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Madonna",
      "aliases": [
        "the image of the Madonna"
      ],
      "description": "A sacred image before which Flora prays for Lorenzo."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Sienese citizens",
      "aliases": [
        "the populace"
      ],
      "description": "The people of Siena who support the Tolomei and taunt Lorenzo."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Tolomei",
      "aliases": [
        "the house of Tolomei"
      ],
      "description": "The ruling Sienese family and hereditary enemies of the Mancini."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Tolomei brothers",
      "aliases": [
        "the two brothers"
      ],
      "description": "The Countess de’ Tolomei’s brothers, killed in the last conflict with the Mancini."
    },
    {
      "name": "Angeline",
      "aliases": [
        "poor little Angeline"
      ],
      "description": "One of Flora’s former companions, who assists her planned departure and stays with her on the last day before the journey."
    },
    {
      "name": "The landlady at the Apennine inn",
      "aliases": [
        "the hostess",
        "the considerate hostess",
        "the landlady"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed innkeeper who gives Fabian and Flora shelter and tells Flora that a stranger has nursed the sick traveller."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sick traveller",
      "aliases": [
        "the sick cavalier",
        "the stranger"
      ],
      "description": "Lorenzo Mancini, found gravely ill on his way to Siena and nursed by Fabian."
    },
    {
      "name": "A servant of the Polish traveller",
      "aliases": [
        "the servant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who accompanies the Polish traveller and assesses the damage to his carriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ladislas",
      "aliases": [
        "the Pole",
        "the traveller",
        "the hero of Ostrolenka and the Vistula"
      ],
      "description": "A Polish patriot in exile, travelling to Naples to seek help for his imprisoned brother. He falls in love with Idalie and escapes a Russian-backed assassination plot."
    },
    {
      "name": "Marietta",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Idalie’s younger sister, a gifted singer who flees Giorgio and the Princess Dashkhoff, performs at San Carlo, warns Ladislas of danger, and helps the couple escape."
    },
    {
      "name": "Giorgio",
      "aliases": [
        "Messer Giorgio"
      ],
      "description": "Marietta and Idalie’s brother, an Italian officer and secret chief of a band of bravi. He conspires to murder Ladislas and dies in the failed attempt."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Princess Dashkhoff",
      "aliases": [
        "Corinna of the North",
        "the Princess"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy Russian patroness influential at the court of St. Petersburg, who lives in Naples and arranges a plot against Ladislas to obtain his papers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Idalie",
      "aliases": [
        "Idalie’s fair"
      ],
      "description": "A Polish artist and Ladislas’s beloved, daughter of a follower of Kosciusko. She marries Ladislas and escapes with him to France."
    },
    {
      "name": "The English traveller",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed English visitor who asks the Princess about Idalie."
    },
    {
      "name": "Idalie and Marietta’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "the follower of Kosciusko"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Polish follower of Kosciusko who died poor and unknown in Naples; he was once wealthy and had a castle."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ladislas’s brother",
      "aliases": [
        "his only brother"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed brother of Ladislas whose fate depends on the Princess Dashkhoff’s influence at Petersburg."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ladislas’s spies",
      "aliases": [
        "spies armed for his destruction"
      ],
      "description": "Unidentified agents said by Marietta to be watching Ladislas and seeking his death."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator of “The Parvenue”",
      "aliases": [
        "I"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed first-person narrator who recounts her rise from poverty, marriage to Lord Reginald, and eventual estrangement from him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s twin sister",
      "aliases": [
        "my sister",
        "Susan"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s twin sister, who marries Lawrence Cooper and later writes to invite the narrator to join her."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "my father"
      ],
      "description": "A land steward who remarries, is badly injured in a fire, and later pressures his daughter to obtain money from Lord Reginald."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "my mother"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s charitable and devout mother, whose advice is to resist her family’s financial demands; she dies after years of illness."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s half-sisters",
      "aliases": [
        "my elder half-sisters",
        "my sisters"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed daughters from the narrator’s father’s first marriage, who work hard and later depend on the narrator’s assistance."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s half-brothers",
      "aliases": [
        "my half-brothers"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed sons from the narrator’s father’s first marriage, who later depend on the narrator’s assistance."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s maternal grandfather",
      "aliases": [
        "my maternal grandfather"
      ],
      "description": "A sensitive and gifted clergyman, whose qualities the narrator’s mother inherits."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Reginald Desborough",
      "aliases": [
        "Lord Reginald",
        "her husband"
      ],
      "description": "A wealthy nobleman who rescues and marries the narrator, then becomes estranged from her after she chooses to support her family."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lawrence Cooper",
      "aliases": [
        "Cooper"
      ],
      "description": "A carpenter who marries Susan; his debts lead him to commit forgery, but he later reforms and becomes prosperous."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s clergyman grandfather",
      "aliases": [
        "her maternal grandfather"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s maternal grandfather, a clergyman remembered as a man of sensibility and genius."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator of “Euphrasia”",
      "aliases": [
        "Valency’s narrator"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed narrator who recounts Harry Valency’s account of the Greek chief Constantine and his sister."
    },
    {
      "name": "Harry Valency",
      "aliases": [
        "Valency",
        "the English youth",
        "the English boy"
      ],
      "description": "A young English volunteer for the Greek cause who is wounded in an ambush and saved by the dying chief Constantine."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Greek chief Constantine",
      "aliases": [
        "Constantine"
      ],
      "description": "A renowned young Greek warrior, brother of Euphrasia, who saves Valency after their ambush and dies from a mortal wound."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Greek scout",
      "aliases": [
        "the scout"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed scout who warns Constantine’s troop that Turkish soldiers are approaching."
    },
    {
      "name": "Euphrasia",
      "aliases": [
        "Constantine’s sister"
      ],
      "description": "Constantine’s beloved younger sister, an educated poet and Greek patriot. Captured by a pasha’s son, she is rescued by Constantine but dies from a gunshot wound."
    },
    {
      "name": "The adopted father of Constantine and Euphrasia",
      "aliases": [
        "their adopted father",
        "the brother by adoption of their father"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed guardian who raises Constantine as a warrior for Greek freedom and educates Euphrasia as a scholar; he dies before the revolution."
    },
    {
      "name": "The son of the pasha",
      "aliases": [
        "the pasha’s son"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Turkish official’s son who has Euphrasia imprisoned in his harem."
    },
    {
      "name": "Constantine’s comrades",
      "aliases": [
        "his comrades",
        "a few select spirits"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed Greek and Albanian companions who help Constantine attack the palace and attempt to rescue Euphrasia."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator of “The Elder Son”",
      "aliases": [
        "I"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who inherits a fortune, is placed under Sir Richard Gray’s guardianship, and recounts her complicated courtship with her cousin Vernon."
    },
    {
      "name": "The father of the narrator of “The Elder Son”",
      "aliases": [
        "my father"
      ],
      "description": "A widowed Irish dean who loves his only daughter deeply and leaves her a substantial inheritance under Sir Richard Gray’s guardianship."
    },
    {
      "name": "The mother of the narrator of “The Elder Son”",
      "aliases": [
        "my mother"
      ],
      "description": "The beloved wife of the narrator’s father, who dies when their daughter is about ten."
    },
    {
      "name": "The governess of the narrator of “The Elder Son”",
      "aliases": [
        "her governess"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed worthy woman who educates the narrator and returns to comfort her after her father dies."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Richard Gray",
      "aliases": [
        "the narrator’s uncle",
        "my uncle"
      ],
      "description": "The narrator’s paternal uncle and guardian, father of Vernon, Clinton, Marianne, and other children. He concealed that Clinton was born to Matilda Towers before their marriage, and later repents of depriving him of his birthright."
    },
    {
      "name": "The first Lady Gray",
      "aliases": [
        "Lady Gray",
        "Sir Richard’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Richard’s first wife, of lower rank, who wins friends through her propriety and dies in childbirth."
    },
    {
      "name": "Vernon Gray",
      "aliases": [
        "Vernon",
        "the cousin"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Richard’s son, who schemes to win the narrator and her fortune, then becomes passionately attached to her. He is the elder legitimate son, while Clinton was born first to Sir Richard and Matilda Towers before their marriage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Clinton Gray",
      "aliases": [
        "Clinton"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Richard and Matilda Towers’s firstborn son, whose birth before their marriage was concealed; he is honourable and loves the narrator, but gives way to Vernon’s claim and later marries her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Marianne Gray",
      "aliases": [
        "Marianne"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Richard’s twelve-year-old daughter and the narrator’s companion at Beech Grove; she is Vernon and Clinton’s sister."
    },
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      "name": "Lady Hythe",
      "aliases": [
        "Sir Richard’s married daughter"
      ],
      "description": "Sir Richard’s married daughter and Clinton’s sister, who befriends the narrator and shelters her from Vernon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Richard Gray’s other married daughter",
      "aliases": [
        "his other married daughter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed married daughter of Sir Richard who lives in Scotland."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Richard Gray’s youngest daughter",
      "aliases": [
        "the youngest girl"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed twelve-year-old daughter of Sir Richard who lives with her governess at the family seat in Hampshire."
    },
    {
      "name": "Matilda Towers",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "description": "Sir Richard Gray’s wife and Clinton’s mother. Sir Richard falsely claimed they were married before Clinton’s birth, then married her three days after Vernon was born."
    },
    {
      "name": "Caroline",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "description": "Clinton’s sister, married and living on the Continent; she comes to support the narrator and explain Clinton’s intentions."
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    {
      "name": "The husband of Caroline",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man, Caroline’s husband, praised by Clinton."
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      "name": "A servant of the narrator",
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      ],
      "description": "An unnamed servant who announces Lady Hythe’s arrival and delivers Clinton’s letter."
    },
    {
      "name": "The narrator’s father’s first wife",
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      ],
      "description": "Sir Richard’s first wife, mother of Vernon and his siblings; she is mentioned as having required concealment of the marriage date."
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      "name": "The narrator of “The Pilgrims”",
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      ],
      "description": "An unnamed narrator who presents Burkhardt of Unspunnen’s story."
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        "the old knight"
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      "description": "A Swiss lord who disowns his daughter Ida after she marries the son of his enemy. He later reconciles with her children and welcomes them into his home."
    },
    {
      "name": "The elder pilgrim",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "description": "Ida’s son, who travels in disguise with his sister to seek Burkhardt’s forgiveness and becomes his grandson’s companion."
    },
    {
      "name": "The younger pilgrim",
      "aliases": [
        "Ida"
      ],
      "description": "Ida’s daughter and Hermann’s sister, who joins him on the pilgrimage to their grandfather and later marries Walter de Blumfeldt."
    },
    {
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      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "description": "Burkhardt’s deceased wife and Ida’s mother, remembered as virtuous and beloved."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ida",
      "aliases": [
        "Burkhardt’s daughter"
      ],
      "description": "Burkhardt and Agnes’s daughter, who marries Conrad of Wädischwyl against her father’s wishes and spends her life seeking his forgiveness. She is the mother of Hermann and the younger Ida."
    },
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        "Lord Rupert"
      ],
      "description": "Burkhardt’s bitter enemy and Conrad’s father, who conspires with Duke Berchtold in an effort to reconcile the families through his son’s marriage to Ida."
    },
    {
      "name": "Duke Berchtold of Zähringen",
      "aliases": [
        "the Duke of Zähringen",
        "His Highness"
      ],
      "description": "A powerful ruler who betrays Burkhardt’s trust, allies with Rupert, and invades Unspunnen."
    },
    {
      "name": "Conrad of Wädischwyl",
      "aliases": [
        "Conrad",
        "the son of Lord Rupert"
      ],
      "description": "Rupert’s son and Ida’s husband, who persuades her to marry him and later takes her to Italy."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old porter",
      "aliases": [
        "the porter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed gatekeeper at Burkhardt’s castle who admits Ida when she returns seeking her father’s forgiveness."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wilfred",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "description": "Burkhardt’s trusted steward, who tells him that Ida has left the castle and grieves with him."
    },
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      "name": "The replacement steward",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "description": "An unnamed stern steward who denies Ida entry when she comes to plead for her father’s forgiveness."
    },
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      "name": "Father Jerome",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "description": "A priest admitted to Burkhardt’s chamber after his reunion with Hermann and Ida."
    },
    {
      "name": "Willibald",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Burkhardt’s steward, who brings a letter from the Abbot of St. Anselm introducing Walter de Blumfeldt."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Abbot of St. Anselm",
      "aliases": [
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      ],
      "description": "An abbot who recommends Walter de Blumfeldt as a worthy guest to Burkhardt. He is Walter’s trusted friend and former tutor, entrusted by Walter’s late father with his education."
    },
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        "Sir Knight",
        "the Duke of Zähringen",
        "His Highness",
        "the duke"
      ],
      "description": "The young knight who marries Ida and is revealed to be the only son and heir of the late Duke of Zähringen. Raised by the Abbot of St. Anselm, he reconciles his family with Burkhardt and becomes Duke."
    },
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        "the Baron"
      ],
      "description": "The father of the young woman who marries Hermann."
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      ],
      "description": "An unnamed young woman, daughter of the Baron de Leichtfeldt, whom Hermann marries."
    },
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      "name": "The Emperor",
      "aliases": [
        "the emperor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed ruler whose wars Walter de Blumfeldt has served."
    },
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        "the dog"
      ],
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    },
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        "his sire"
      ],
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      "aliases": [
        "the pages"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed attendants who advance in the staged ceremony for Ida’s birthday."
    },
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      "name": "The six young girls",
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      ],
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