Characters.

List of the play's characters.

SFORZA:

Francesco Sforza, the new superstar of the mercenary world and a womaniser. Wants to be Duke of Milan.

VISCONTI:

Filippo Maria Visconti. Duke of Milan. Politically brilliant, completely untrustworthy.

BIANCA:

His illegitimate daughter, wants to rule in Milan after her father one way or the other.

FIA:

Fiammetta d'Este. A would-be political fixer.

COSIMO:

Cosimo Medici. Banker. Sometime ruler in Florence.

ALESS:

Alessandro Sfroza. Sforza's brother and fixer.

ALFONSO:

Wants to be King of Naples, despises Sforza.

PIC:

Niccolo Piccinino. The second best soldier in Italy.

VENICE:

The ambassador of Venice.

POPE:

A prince more temporal than spiritual.

PERSICCO:

A Visconti functionary.

CAR:

Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola. The leading soldier of the age and once Visconti's Captain General

FEDERICO:

Federico Montefeltro. The best of the next generation of mercenary captains who idolise Sforza.

MAL:

Sigismond Malatesta. Treacherous to the core

LOUIS:

The Dauphin of France. An avid follower of Sforza's exploits.

MICH:

Micheletto Attendolo. A mercenary captain and Sforza's uncle.

TIME

The play begins in the late 1420s and ends with the peace of Lodi in 1454.