# Satan’s Diary — Character guide

> Key figures in Satan’s Diary by Leonid Andreyev.

- [Signor Thomas Magnus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/signor_thomas_magnus.md): A Roman gentleman of unsettling charm whose absences speak louder than his greetings, and who once lived so piously as a monk that his ashes became relics.
- [Mr. Henry Wondergood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/mr_henry_wondergood.md): An Illinois gentleman abroad who keeps confessing he is Satan in human form, and whose loneliness on the Atlantic is so vast he must write it down.
- [Maria](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/maria.md): A young Roman woman with a gaze as clear as the Campagna sky, whose harp and voice turn Wondergood into a taut, trembling string.
- [Mr. Toppi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/mr_toppi.md): The unbribable, good, poor Toppi — a servant whose plain decency becomes the quiet measure against which grand diabolical schemes are taken.
- [Satan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/satan.md): The devil himself, ten days into wearing a human body, who finds words, logic, and loneliness far harder to bear than hell ever was.
- [Cardinal X.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/cardinal_x.md): A prince of the Church whose secret dealings and worldly calculations make him an unexpectedly fitting companion for a devil on holiday.
- [Irwin Toppi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/irwin_toppi.md): A younger relative of Mr. Toppi, also serving in the household.
- [Madonna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/madonna.md): A religious figure referenced in prayers and iconography.
- [Magnus Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/magnus_rabbit.md): A pet rabbit belonging to Signor Magnus, treated with affection.
- [Mars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/mars.md): A deranged or eccentric character who appears briefly.
- [Beelzebub](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/satan_s_diary_se/characters/beelzebub.md): A demonic entity mentioned in the narrative as a counterpart to Satan.

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