person
Rolando
A fictional Portuguese sailor and the tale's frame-figure in 'Ecce Homo'; rescued from a shipwreck by Spiridion on Java, he is implicated in the Gothic events in Spain (the Inquisition, the madhouse, the deaths). He ends the story wandering mad on Java, collapsing before a desecrated Ecce Homo icon.
Reading notes
- Tales (Five Stories) §4 Rolando
A fictional Portuguese sailor and the tale's frame-figure in 'Ecce Homo'; rescued from a shipwreck by Spiridion on Java, he is implicated in the Gothic events in Spain (the Inquisition, the madhouse, the deaths). He ends the story wandering mad on Java, collapsing before a desecrated Ecce Homo icon.