The Courts of the Morning · Character
Don Mario Sanfuentes
An elderly horse-breeding cousin of Don Alejandro, whose ranch of heirlooms and thoroughbreds becomes a quiet schoolroom in Olifero history and politics.
supporting
Also known as Don Mario, Mario, Sanfuentes, old Don Mario
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As a supporting figure in The Courts of the Morning, Don Mario Sanfuentes is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Hosts Archie and Janet at dinner, retires early at ten o'clock.
Don Mario lives apart from modern Olifa, his dead wife's memory kept company by horses, faded tapestries, and a Murillo from some forgotten Conquistador church. He greets the Roylances with grave courtesy and feeds them talk of foxhounds, tiger hunts, and punitive expeditions, a living archive of the old land. It is he who summons young Luis de Marzaniga to dinner — the introduction that sets the travellers on the path toward the Gran Seco and everything that follows.
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