# Donna Julia — Don Juan character guide

> Donna Julia in Don Juan by Lord Byron.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Julia, the Donna Julia

**First appearance:** 0006-canto-i

## Snapshot

A married Sevillian noblewoman whose affair with a boy half her age ignites the scandal that sends Juan out of Spain.

## Who they are

Donna Julia is unhappily wed to an older man and finds in the adolescent Juan a passion that flatters her intelligence as much as her vanity. Her letter to him after the discovery is one of the poem's sharpest pieces of self-justifying eloquence, mixing tenderness with calculation. She matters because she is Juan's first real education in love: not romance, but risk, concealment, and the cost of being found out.

## Relationships

### [Don Juan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/characters/don_juan)

_romantic_

Don Juan has a scandalous romantic affair with the married Donna Julia in Seville, leading to her disgrace.

### [Don Juan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/characters/don_juan)

_romantic_

Don Juan has a scandalous romantic affair with the married Donna Julia in Seville, leading to her disgrace.

### [Don Juan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/characters/don_juan)

_romantic_

Don Juan has a scandalous romantic affair with the married Donna Julia in Seville, leading to her disgrace.

## In the story

### [Canto I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/chapters/canto-i)

A married woman of Moorish origin, introduced as a beautiful acquaintance of Donna Inez, who will become involved with Juan.

### [Canto II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/don_juan_se/chapters/canto-ii)

Remembered by Juan as he reads her letter and vows constancy before seasickness overwhelms him.

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