Merchants may be either low-income or wealthy depending on the success of their entrepreneurial endeavors. All of the brigata members fall into this category. Royalty is reserved for the high-ranking officials of a kingdom, including kings, queens, dukes, princess, princesses, etc. Some characters may change from one estate to another in the course of a novella. In these rare cases, we typically encoded for the social rank that most clearly defined the character, which usually was their original rank.
Many characters have more than one role, such as a woman who is a widow and also a housewife.
In these cases, we have attempted to determine what their main role is. We have included a list of all Non Christian characters for easy reference. Disguise is a non-searchable attribute. Questions of whether a place is imaginary or not have been resolved by consulting the work of Branca or other secondary sources.