Shorts from Scenes from Private Life · Character
Bartolomeo di Piombo
A fierce Corsican veteran whose devotion to family honor and to Napoleon binds him to a code older than Parisian law.
supporting
Also known as Bartolomeo, Piombo, the Piombo, a Piombo, little Bartolomeo
First appearance: The Vendetta
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A Corsican exile who arrives at the Tuileries with his family, seeking Napoleon.
Bartolomeo di Piombo arrives in Paris with his wife and daughter, carrying the fierce loyalties of his island and a bond of life and death sworn to the First Consul. Proud, impoverished, and unbending, he measures the world by Corsican honor rather than Parisian fashion. His inflexibility shapes his daughter's fate and sets the family on a collision course with the city's colder calculations.
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- Corsican honor
- Parisian social web
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See Bartolomeo di Piombo in The Vendetta