Race of Scorpions - Dorothy Dunnett [2]
* William Goneme, Archbishop of Nicosia
* Sir Rizzo di Marino, Sicilian chamberlain to Zacco
* Sir Nicholas (Conella) Morabit, Sicilian vice-consul of Nicosia
* Philip Pesaro, Venetian captain of Sigouri
* Gianozzo Salviati, a commander
* Alexander Tarantin, Bailie of the Karpass
* Antony di Zucco, Bishop of Limassol
* Sir Philip Podocataro, doctor of law
* Sir Peter Podocataro, his brother
* George Bustron, commandant at Salines (Aliki/Larnaka)
* Thomas Carerio, Bailie of the King’s Secrète
* David de Salmeton, agent for the Vatachino company of brokers
GENOESE CITY OF FAMAGUSTA:
* Napoleone Lomellini, captain of Famagusta
* Tomà Adorno of Chios
* Cyprien Pallaviccino
* James Doria, Bank of St George
* Babilian Gentile
* Hieronimo Verdure
* Nicolao Archerio
* Francesco de Pastino
VENETIANS IN CYPRUS:
* Paul Erizzo, Venetian Bailie in Cyprus
* Marco Corner, sugar-grower of Episkopi and ally of James
* Fiorenza of Naxos, his wife, princess and grand-daughter (with Valenza and Violante) of Emperor John IV of Trebizond
* Andrea Corner, his brother, serving Queen Carlotta
* Giovanni (Vanni) Loredano, deputy Bailie and Episkopi factor
* Valenza of Naxos his wife, princess of Trebizond and sister of Fiorenza above
* Ludovic (Luigi) Martini, sugar farmer
* Giovanni Martini, his brother
* Bartolomeo Zorzi (Giorgio), merchant refugee from Constantinople and younger brother of Nicholai Giorgio de’ Acciajuoli
* Jacopo Zorzi, vineyard owner in Cyprus, a third brother
* Girolamo Michiel, refugee from Constantinople and ex-partner of Bartolomeo
VENETIANS ELSEWHERE:
* Violante of Naxos, princess of Trebizond and sister to Fiorenza and Valenza
* Caterino Zeno, Venetian merchant, her husband
* Giovanni Bembo, Venetian Bailie at Modon; kinsman to Piero Bembo and to Francesco, brother-in-law of Marco Corner
Rhodes:
KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM:
* Grand Master Pierre-Raimond Zacosta of Castile
* Louis de Magnac, Grand Commander of Cyprus
* Brother William de Combort, lieutenant in command at Kolossi
* Brother Telli, castellan of Kyrenia
* Tobias Lomellini of Genoa, Treasurer of the Order
* Sir Imperiale Doria of Genoa, Admiral to Carlotta
* Merle de Piozasque of Savoy, Admiral, also serving Carlotta
* George de Piozasque, adherent of Carlotta
* John de Kinloch, Scots chaplain to the Knights Hospitaller
* Patrick Scougal, Scots Conventual Brother of the Hospital
OTHERS:
Limboulaki (Boulaki), a fisherman of Apolakia
Persefoni of Pharaclos, aunt of Boulaki
Yiannis of Apolakia
Lukas, his grandson
Turcoman, Ottoman and Mameluke Powers:
* Uzum Hasan, lord of the White Sheep tribe of Turcomans
* Sara Khatun of Syria, his Christian mother
* Theodora his wife, niece of David, exiled Emperor of Trebizond
* Mehmet II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
* David Comnenos, former Emperor of Trebizond, his prisoner
* George Amiroutzes, the Emperor’s former Great Chancellor
* Khushcadam of Cairo, Sultan of Egypt and Syria
* Emir Tzani-bey al-Ablak, his Mameluke commander in Cyprus
Abul Ismail, Arab physician with the Mameluke force
Introduction
THE ELEGANT WORKING out of designs historical and romantic, political and commercial, psychological and moral, over a multivolume novel is a Dorothy Dunnett specialty. In her first work in this genre, the six-volume “Lymond Chronicles,” suspense was created and relieved in each volume, and over the whole set of volumes; the final, beautifully inevitable, romantic secret was disclosed on the very last page of the last volume. “The House of Niccolò” does the same.
The reader of Race of Scorpions, then, may wish to move directly to the narrative for a first experience of that pattern, with a reader’s faith in an experienced author’s caretaking; the novel itself briefly supplies the information you need to know from past novels, telling its own tale while completing and inaugurating others. What follows, as a sketch of the geopolitical and dramatic terrain unfolding in the volumes which precede Race of Scorpions, may be useful to