# Adam’s Breed — Character guide

> Key figures in Adam’s Breed by Radclyffe Hall.

- [Gian-Luca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/gian_luca.md): Gian-Luca is a London restaurateur's headwaiter whose exacting discipline conceals a lonely, orphaned boy who never had a name beyond his own. He loves Maddalena with a devotion that cannot answer her hunger for a child,
- [Maddalena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/maddalena.md): Maddalena Trevi leaves her father's trattoria and the sunlit Campagna to marry Gian-Luca in London, where her whole world narrows to one man. Childless and devout, she kneels and pleads with him for affection, then turns
- [Teresa Boselli](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/teresa_boselli.md): Teresa Boselli rules her family with a stern, penitential faith forged from a youthful sin she has spent a lifetime atoning for. When her daughter Olga lies dying and refuses to betray her lover, Teresa hurls her rosary 
- [Mario Varese](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/mario_varese.md): Mario Varese is the good-hearted relative whose holidays are elaborate games of make-believe, spun out in Teresa's back parlor for children who will likely never see Cornwall. He adores his family yet is never quite cont
- [Fabio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/fabio.md): Fabio keeps his shop behind a counter of sausages and cheeses, a small rotund man with a trembling lip and a monk's ring of grey hair. He insists on furnishing Gian-Luca and Maddalena's first home, saying firmly that he 
- [Rosa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/rosa.md): Rosa gave her milk to Gian-Luca, and that bond makes her the bridge between his old life and his marriage to Maddalena. She confides her griefs to Maddalena—a daughter who will marry at a register office, a son-in-law wh
- [Nerone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/nerone.md): Nerone presides over his own shop and household with a sour tongue, forever complaining that his daughter Rosa's children are useless and that Geppe steals his cigarettes. Yet he adores babies of any nationality and secr
- [Geppe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/geppe.md): Geppe drifts through the family shop as a reluctant wage-earner, more interested in smoking tobacco than selling it and forever recounting his military prowess to anyone who will listen. His laziness and insolence collid
- [Padrona](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/padrona.md): The Padrona stands among the bottles of the Capo di Monte, bowing to clients with a reserve that makes her rare smiles feel like favors. Teresa speaks against her from the cash-desk and parlor, while Gian-Luca lingers by
- [Francesco Millo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/francesco_millo.md): Millo has raised the Doric to great fame through an epicurean palate and a taste for originality, and he treats the search for rare viands as a gentleman's sport. When he comes himself to the Casa Boselli, sniffing toads
- [Padrone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/padrone.md): The Padrone runs the Capo di Monte with an aloof manner and a shrewd eye for the main chance, swearing to Mario that he will bring all London to his tables. He has the bump of selection, a beautiful golden-haired wife, a
- [Sisto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/sisto.md): A cousin who appears in the narrative as a relative.
- [Signor Millo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/signor_millo.md): A gentleman named Millo, possibly a local authority or neighbor.
- [Schmidt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/schmidt.md): A foreigner or visitor named Schmidt.
- [Ugo Doria](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/ugo_doria.md): A man named Doria, possibly a noble or acquaintance.
- [Roberto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/roberto.md): A young boy or small Roberto in the story.
- [Aunt Ottavia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/aunt_ottavia.md): A tactless and poor aunt in the family.
- [Olga Boselli](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/olga_boselli.md): A member of the Boselli family, possibly a daughter or relative.
- [Leone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/leone.md): A character named Leone, possibly a servant or local.
- [Giovanni](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/giovanni.md): A man named Giovanni, likely a servant or acquaintance.
- [Signora Rocca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/signora_rocca.md): A woman of the Rocca household, possibly a neighbor.
- [Lidia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/lidia.md): A cousin named Lidia in the family circle.
- [Jane Coram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/jane_coram.md): An Englishwoman named Jane Coram, possibly a visitor.
- [Riccardo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/riccardo.md): A man named Riccardo, likely a servant or relative.
- [Father Antonio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/father_antonio.md): An old priest named Father Antonio.
- [Monsieur Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/monsieur_martin.md): A French gentleman named Monsieur Martin.
- [Milady](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/milady.md): A titled woman, possibly English, referred to as Milady.
- [Morelia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/morelia.md): A character named Morelia, possibly a servant or local.
- [Moscatone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/moscatone.md): A character named Moscatone, possibly a nickname.
- [Henri](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/henri.md): A good-natured man named Henri.
- [Daniele](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/daniele.md): A man named Daniele, possibly a servant or relative.
- [Alano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/alano.md): A man named Alano, likely a servant or local.
- [Giuliano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/adam_s_breed_se/characters/giuliano.md): A man named Giuliano, possibly a relative or servant.

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