Minor Characters
Philotis
Richardetto’s niece and Bergetto’s eventual fiancée. Philotis is innocent and sweet. She is the only woman to survive the play because Richardetto, seeing the harm that men and sex bring to women in their society, and advises her to leave for a convent.
Bergetto
Donado’s nephew and a suitor to Annabella. He and Poggio mostly serve as comic relief with their idiotic revelries. Later in the play he falls in love with Philotis, but when they try to marry in the dead of night, Grimaldi mistakes Bergetto for Soranzo and murders him.
Poggio
Bergetto’s friend. He serves as comic relief and facilitates Bergetto’s stupidity by allowing him to go to foolish amusements like puppet shows.
Grimaldi
Another of Annabella’s suitors and a Roman soldier. He is outmatched by Soranzo and resolves to kill him, but accidentally kills Bergetto instead. He is then protected by the Cardinal because he is of noble blood.
The Cardinal
A religious figure under the Pope, the Cardinal represents the injustice of the church. He protects Grimaldi after he accidentally murders Bergetto and unfairly judges and punishes Annabella and Puttana.
Banditti
A gang of robbers and criminals that carry out vigilante justice against Puttana and Giovanni for Vasquez and Soranzo. They are the only successful correctors of wrong-doing, but this is ironic as they are criminals themselves.