# The Marchesa Aphrodite — Short Fiction character guide

> The Marchesa Aphrodite in Short Fiction by Edgar Allan Poe.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the Marchesa, Aphrodite

**First appearance:** 0010-the-assignation

## Who they are

Beautiful woman who dies in a tragic love affair in Venice.

## In the story

### [The Assignation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_14_se/chapters/the-assignation)

The beautiful Marchesa is the adoration of Venice, wife of Mentoni, and mother of a child who falls into the canal. She is later reported poisoned.

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