Caprice and Rondo (11 page)

Nicholai Giorgio de’ Acciajuoli, Greek-Florentine nobleman

Rudolfo Fioravanti degli Alberti (’Aristotele’), engineer

Andreas, his son

Pietro, his pupil

Gothia and Black Sea Circassians

Isáac, prince of Mánkup and Gothia

Aleksandre, his brother and successor

Abdan Khan, Circassian leader of Gothian armies

Marta, Circassian housekeeper in Fasso

Muscovy

Zoe/Sophia Palaeologina, wife of Grand Duke Ivan III and niece of the last Emperor of Constantinople

Ivan, her stepson

Maria, Grand Duke Ivan’s mother

Andrew, Grand Duke Ivan’s brother

Boris, another brother

Dymitr Wiśniowiecki, fur trader

Metropolitan Philip