Caprice and Rondo (7 page)

Jan Dłlugosz, royal tutor, national historian, canon of Cracow

Jan Ostrórog, royal tutor, political writer, Castellan of Poznan

Archbishop Gregory of Sanok, Primate of Poland

Thomas Halkerston, Scots merchant in Danzig

Stephen Lawson of Haddington, the same

William Simpson, the same

James Lauder, the same

Germany and other Hanseatic League

Emperor Frederick III of the House of Habsburg

Archduke Maximilian, his son

Heinrich Castorp, merchant of Lübeck

France and Lorraine

René, Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence and titular King of Naples and Sicily; father of former Queen Margaret of England

René II, Duke of Lorraine, grandson of King René

Bernard de Moncourt, seigneur de Chouzy, kinsman of Clémence de Coulanges