THE DOGE has white hair, and seventy years of age. 
MORTADELLO has hair dyed dark auburn, and forty years of age.  He is 
stout, tall and pompous. 
ALESSANDRO has rough hair of fiery red, and thirty years of age. 
LORENZO has scanty ashen hair, and twenty-eight years of age. 
GABRIELE is a hunchbacked dwarf, very strongly built, with a large and 
intellectual head.  He is bald, and has fifty years of age. 
ORLANDO is of gigantic stature, a full negro.  He has forty years of age. 
THE LEGATE is an old and venerable man of ascetic and noble type. 
MAGDALENA is a tall, robust, and buxom woman of thirty-five years old.  
Her hair is black, but her complexion pale. 
LUCREZIA is a tall, robust, and voluptuous woman of twenty-five years old.  
Her hair is of fine gold, her eyes of pale blue, and her complexion 
fair and rosy. 
ZELINA is small and plump.  Her hair is brown, and her age nine-and-
twenty, though she looks older. 
MONICA is of medium height, very thin and serpent-like, her hair black 
and crisp ;  her features like Madonna’s.  Her eyes are extraordinarily 
black, keen, and piercing.  Her age is twenty.  Her hands and feet 
are very small and white, her complexion like fine porcelain. 
THE ABBESS is a gigantic and burly woman of fifty years old. 
 
 
 
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