DRAMATIS PERSONAE

THE D’ORFEO FAMILY, OF TRASTEVERE

Ludovico, father

Serafina, mother

Elisabetta, daughter

Rico and Gnocchi, willful cats

THE SIMONE FAMILY, OF THE GHETTO

Massimo, father

Gemma, mother

Rosa, daughter

Alessandro “Sandro,” son

Cornelia Rossi, nanny and housekeeper

David Jacobs, Rosa’s boyfriend

THE TERRIZZI FAMILY, OF TIBER ISLAND

Giuseppe “Beppe,” father

Maria, mother

Emedio, firstborn son and priest

Aldo, middle son

Marco, youngest son

OTHER CHARACTERS

Giuseppina “Nonna” Servano, matriarch and owner of Casa Servano

Paolo, her son

Sofia, his wife

Commendatore Buonacorso, Fascist officer

Comandante Spada, retiring Fascist officer

Carmine Vecchio, Fascist thug

Stefano Pretianni, Fascist thug

Rolf Stratten, Nazi aide-de-camp

Professor Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematician

Ugo Foà, President of the Jewish Community of Rome

Dante Almansi, President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities

Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler, highest-ranking officer of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, in Rome

Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, German Ambassador to the Vatican