Renzo, the bridegroom; Lucia, the bride; don Abbondino, the priest who won't marry them because don Rodrigo's henchment who look like the Zig-Zag man threaten him; Fra Crisotoforo, an heroic priest who had killed a man in a vendetta and converted to active Christianity; Azzeccagarbugli, "Quibbleweaver", an attorney who turns on Renzo when he seeks legal redress; Innominato, a thoroughly evil and powerful mafia chief whom everyone is terrified of, whose name can't be pronounced, except as "The Nameless", and is converted by St. Charles Borromeo's saintly cousin Federico; Gertrude the Nun of Monza who was the daughter of a high noble family, was forced into a convent, took it over, committed adultery and murder, and turned Lucia back over to don Rodrigo for pay and power.