Caprice and Rondo (6 page)

Elzbiete, his daughter

Gerta his mistress, tavern-keeper in Thorn

Filippo Buonaccorsi (Callimachus), royal secretary, exiled Italian poet and scholar

Nicolao Lipnicki, his servant

Filip Bischoff, Danzig merchant

Elzbiete Gerber, his wife

Barbara, one of his daughters

Jerzy Bock, Elder of the Confrérie of St George; Bischoff’s brother-in-law

Johann Sidinghusen, Danzig merchant, part-owner of the
Peter von Danzig
; father-in-law of Bock

Tidemann Valandt, Danzig merchant, part-owner of the
Peter von Danzig

Heinrich Niederhof, Danzig merchant, part-owner of the
Peter von Danzig

Elizabeth Habsburg of Austria, Queen of Poland, second cousin of the Emperor Frederick

Wladyslaw, King of Bohemia, her eldest son

Kazimierz,
Jan Olbracht,
Aleksander and
Zygmunt, other sons