Pittrino

Also known as: Master Pittrino / Signor Pittrino · Role: painter · First appears: Chapter 5

Life events

• Cropole sheltered Pittrino, who became an overseer of the hostelry.(Chapter5 · 📍 Blois)
  • With: Cropole
  • “As he grew old he attached himself to the son as he had done to the father, and by degrees became a kind of over-looker of a house in which his remarkable integrity, his acknowledged sobriety, and a thousand other virtues useless to enumerate, gave him an eternal place by the fireside, with a right of inspection over the domestics.”
• The city authorized Pittrino’s revised sign, which made the hostelry extravagantly successful.(Chapter5 · 📍 Blois)
  • With: Cropole
  • “The sign produced an extravagant success in the city, which proves that poetry has always been in the wrong, before citizens, as Pittrino said.”

Chapter 5

• friends with Cropole “Cropoli, in his character of a compatriot, was indulgent towards Pittrino, which was the name of the artist. Perhaps he had seen the famous pictures of the bath-room. Be this as it may, he held in such esteem, we may say in such friendship, the famous Pittrino, that he took him in his own house.”
• patron: Cropole (Cropole shelters Pittrino in his household.) “Be this as it may, he held in such esteem, we may say in such friendship, the famous Pittrino, that he took him in his own house.”
• employer: Cropole (Pittrino serves as the inn’s painter-in-ordinary.) “And this is how there was at Blois a hostelry of that name, and had for a painter-in-ordinary Master Pittrino.”
• with Madame la Marechale d’Ancre (Pittrino claims to have painted her bathroom.) “He boasted of having painted a bath-room for Madame la Marechale d’Ancre, and mourned over this chamber having been burnt at the time of the marechal’s disaster.”
• patron: Cropoli (Cropoli sheltered and supported Pittrino.) “he held in such esteem, we may say in such friendship, the famous Pittrino, that he took him in his own house”
• friends with Cropoli (The text explicitly describes Cropoli’s friendship for Pittrino.) “he held in such esteem, we may say in such friendship, the famous Pittrino”

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Extracted from the original text of The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Made with Rho MD.