Piranesi Characters

Stanley Ovenden was part of Laurence Arne-Sayles’s original inner circle of followers. He is notable for his attendance in 1987 at Arne-Sayles’s farmhouse in Casale del Pino, where Maurizio Giussani disappeared. Ovenden himself disappeared mysteriously later in life. Piranesi believes he is one of the skeletons inhabiting the House.

Maurizio Giussani was a philosophy student at the University of Perugia. He disappeared in 1987 after attending a dinner in Casale del Pino with Arne-Sayles and his inner circle.

Robin Bannerman is a former member of Laurence Arne-Sayles’s inner circle. He is believed to have been involved in the break-in at the Manchester Museum. He is reported as having performed a ritual with Arne-Sayles and Valentine Ketterley using the mummified head of Marepool III.

Robert Allstead is a doctor and co-worker whom Sylvia D’Agostino befriends in 1990. Her friendship with him—which she refuses to end—results in her disappearance.

The Biscuit-Box Man is the third-person in Piranesi’s list of the people who have existed. He is an organized pile of bones. The small bones are in a red biscuit box.

The Concealed Person is the fourth person in Piranesi’s list of the people who have existed. It is a skeleton in a narrow space.

These are the fifth to 14th people in Piranesi’s list of the people who have existed. They are all skeletons. Three are female, three are male, and four Piranesi cannot identity.

The Fish-Leather Man is one of The People of the Alcove. Some of his bones have holes bored in them with fragments of fish leather.

The Folded-Up Child is a skeleton of a young girl with her knees drawn up to her chin. She is the fifteenth person on Piranesi’s list of people who have existed. He believes she was meant to be his wife.

Elena Marietti was the fiancée of Maurizio Giussani.