# Prince Corradino — Short Fiction character guide

> Prince Corradino in Short Fiction by Mary Shelley.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Corradino, the young and daring Corradino

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

## Snapshot

A sixteen-year-old prince whose pale beauty and quiet self-possession mark him as the hope of a broken cause, though he has not yet spoken his name aloud.

## Who they are

Corradino is the exiled Swabian claimant whose fortunes the old Ghibelline shoemaker Cincolo still curses Guelphs over, a boy of sixteen with marble-pale cheeks and a dignity beyond his years. He arrives at Cincolo's door in a cap drawn low, half-hiding the chestnut curls, and the household's deference to him betrays what his silence will not. His youth against the city's long, bloody Guelph-Ghibelline feud is the story's central pressure: whether such a slight figure can carry the weight of a party's last hopes.

## In the story

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

The young Swabian prince and last descendant of the house of Swabia, expected from Germany to lead the Ghibelline cause; praised for bravery, purity, and gentleness.

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