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Camillo & Giovanni
- Giovanni
- Son of Brachiano and Isabella
- Few appearances display
youth and immaturity
- Initially arriving with mother,
emphasising attachment to her
- Main function in scene is to cement relationship between father and uncle
- "here comes a champion / shall end the
difference between you both"
- Lengthy dialogue with father and uncle
demonstrates lively intelligence and precosity
- Next is with Lodovico, going to tell Uncle of
mother's death
- Youthful response to her death provokes
pity - questions what the dead do
- "Do they eat / hear music, go a-hunting, and be
merry / As we that live?"
- Narration of mother's treatment reminiscent
of Ophelia in Hamlet
- "They wrapped her in a cruel fold of lead /
and would not let me kiss her"
- Next is when revenge is started - but doesn't
understand it has come from his uncle
- Become the new Duke, despite his youth
- Flamineo's remarks that he
should "be merry" as he has
inherited the dukedom
- Merits the reproach "Study your prayer, sir, and be penitent"
- Audience likely to approve of behaviour
since they have seen Flamineo's
malevolent influence exerted before
- Speaks the final words of the play -
responsible for the restoration of order
- Audience bound to have misgivings on account
of his immaturity
- Camillo
- Vittoria's husband and Monticelso's nephew
- Initial descriptions show him as a fool and
no match for his beautiful, clever wife
- Vittoria's motive for marrying him = financial
- "He bought you of your father"
- Spent twelve thousand ducats in 6 months but
received no dowry
- Main function = obstruct play's more important
characters, all (including audience) are anxious to get
him out of the way
- Monticelso sends him away so B & V can continue affair to
become a public scandal
- Vittoria plays along with Flamineo to get him out of the way
- Negative descriptions - "ass"
- Fearful of being "cuckholded" but is gullible and easily
manipulated by wife, uncle and brother-in-law
- His death by Flamineo, neck broken on vaulting horse
is both pathetic and humiliating