# Signor Borrhomeo — Short Fiction character guide

> Signor Borrhomeo in Short Fiction by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Signor, Borrhomeo, old Borrhomeo

**First appearance:** 0032-borrhomeo-the-astrologer

## Snapshot

An old astrologer whose bargains with fate are recounted by a narrator who has spent thirty-five years avoiding pistols and trouble.

## Who they are

Signor Borrhomeo belongs to a remembered world of early adventure, one of the forms and faces that rise before the narrator's firelit gaze on long winter evenings. An astrologer by trade, he moves among the lighthearted and the ruined, the loved and the worthless, in a past the narrator insists on keeping anonymous. His dark bargain gives the collection its sense of old sins ripening quietly into consequence.

## In the story

### [Spalatro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/spalatro)

The old man who lures the narrator into the haunted mansion and presides over the demonic festivities.

### [Borrhomeo the Astrologer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/borrhomeo-the-astrologer)

The astrologer and alchemist who makes a pact with a demonic figure to gain the elixir of life and wealth, ultimately defiling church doors with plague.

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