Confusion about Luigi and Antony
To be clear – there is a misprint in the novel. In the Dramatis Personae, there is a glyph next to Luigi Capecelatro, indicating that he is a character from Shakespeare. This is not true. He is not from Shakespeare. His brother Antony is. As anyone who reads the...Pronunciation Guide and Update
This is something I should have posted a long time ago – a guide to how to say some of the names. I’ll save the more esoteric ones for later. Right now, let’s focus on the leads: Cangrande della Scala — kahn-GRAHN-day DELL-ah SKAH-la...Important Infelicity
This is an incredibly minor flaw in the typesetting, one that I thought I had dealt with, but that didn’t make the transfer from my notes to the actual physical book. In the Dramatis Personae, on the page listing the Capulletti family, there is a diamond beside...