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PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

In Saluzzo

GIAMBATTISTA BODONI, leading man, printer and director of the royal press at the court of Parma

GIANDOMENICO BODONI, Bodoni’s grandfather, a printer

FRANCESCO BODONI, Bodoni’s father, a printer

PAOLA MARGARITA GIOLITTI, Bodoni’s mother

CARLO BODONI, Bodoni’s uncle, a priest

DOMENICO BODONI, Bodoni’s older brother, a printer

ANGELA BODONI, Bodoni’s older sister

BENEDETA BODONI, Bodoni’s next sister

GIUSEPPE BODONI, Bodoni’s younger brother, his assistant in Parma

IGNAZIO CAPPA, school friend

DOMENICO COSTA, school friend who accompanied Bodoni to Rome

In Rome

CARDINAL SPINELLI, prefect of the Propaganda Fide

COSTANTINO RUGGIERI, superintendent of the press at the Propaganda Fide

PAOLO MARIA PACIAUDI, priest, archaeologist, librarian, responsible for bringing Bodoni to Parma

JOSÉ NICOLÁS DE AZARA, Spanish diplomat, Bodoni’s patron in later life

In Parma

FERDINANDO I, duke of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla

MARIA AMALIA, archduchess of Austria, duchess of Parma

GUILLAUME DU TILLOT, prime minister of Parma

ENNEMOND PETITOT, architect at the court of Parma

JEAN BAPTISTE BOUDARD, sculptor at the court of Parma

JEAN GEORGE HANDWERCK, bursar at the royal press in Parma

MARGHERITA DALL’AGLIO (Ghitta), Bodoni’s wife

GIUSEPPE DE LAMA, Bodoni’s biographer and close friend

DALMASTRO, Bodoni’s manservant

LUIGI ORSI, Bodoni’s foreman

FRANCESCO ROSASPINA, engraver and close friend

MÉDÉRIC LOUIS ÉLIE MOREAU DE ST MÉRY, administrator general of Parma and close friend

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, emperor of France

JOSEPHINE DE BEAUHARNAIS, empress of France

JOSEPH BONAPARTE, French ambassador to Parma

MARIE LOUISE, Napoleon’s second wife, empress of France, became Maria Luigia, duchess of Parma

COUNT ADAM ALBERT VON NEIPPERG, second husband of Maria Luigia

Elsewhere

EUGÈNE DE BEAUHARNAIS, Napoleon’s stepson, viceroy of Italy

CAROLINE MURAT (née Bonaparte), Napoleon’s sister, queen of Naples

JOACHIM MURAT, Bodoni’s patron and friend, Napoleon’s brother-in-law, king of Naples