# Messer Cincolo — Short Fiction character guide

> Messer Cincolo in Short Fiction by Mary Shelley.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Cincolo, good Cincolo

**First appearance:** 0000-a-tale-of-the-passions

## Who they are

A comic or wise figure offering counsel in the narrative.

## In the story

### [A Tale of the Passions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_38_se/chapters/a-tale-of-the-passions)

A Ghibelline cobbler who longs to fight for Corradino but stays home for his wife; he receives the mysterious youth Ricciardo de' Rossini.

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