# Piranesi — Confessions of an English Opium-Eater character guide

> Piranesi in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0005-part-ii-the-pains-of-opium

## Who they are

An artist whose dreamlike architectural prints haunt the narrator's opium visions.

## In the story

### [The Pains of Opium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/confessions_of_an_english_opium_eater_se/chapters/part-ii-the-pains-of-opium)

Referenced indirectly through the description of vast architectural dreams reminiscent of Piranesi's engravings.

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