Foucault's Pendulum | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Casaubon - This character is a graduate student in Philosophy at the university, and writes a dissertation on the Knights Templar.

Jacopo Belbo - This character has an ironic temperament that he uses to deflate the egos of the arrogant.

Diotallevi - This character claims he is a Jew, though there is no evidence of this fact, and also that he is a descendant of one of the founders of Milan.

Mr. Garamond - This character is an older, upper-class Milanese gentleman who keeps to himself, and is a good salesman.

Gudrun -...
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