![]() ![]() Don Achille CarracciĪ legendary madman in the neighborhood. She and Elena often have a difficult relationship, but she occasionally makes gestures showing her support for her daughter's ambitions. He works as a porter at city hall in Naples. ![]() He is forty years old in the frame narrative at the start of the novel. He takes over his father's trade as a shoemaker. Nunzia is the wife of Fernando, and mother of Lila, Rino, and several other children. Fernando Cerulloįernando is Lila's father. She is strikingly beautiful and magnetically charismatic, even from a young age, but she is also manipulative and willful. She has a long, close, but often ambivalent friendship with Lila. Lenu grows up in poverty in Naples, but is very intelligent and academically successful. The protagonist and narrator of the novel. ![]()
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