Jacopo Bearzatti

## Appearances

### Appears in

The House in Fata MorganaThe House in Fata Morgana: Requiem for InnocenceThe House in Fata Morgana: Reincarnation

### Debut

The House in Fata Morgana

Jacopo Bearzatti is a twenty-six year old businessman in the year 1869. He is arrogant and ambitious, and has plans in the railroad industry. However, this often leads him to despise others, and he believes in only two things: power and money. He was married to The White-Haired Girl of that time in an arranged marriage, but he doesn't trust her and keeps pushing her aside by insulting her. However, he seems to have been much more generous and kind to her right after their marriage. He is the son of the powerful Bearzatti family, and is under constant pressure to be the best and not let anyone get in his way.

Jacopo is also a childhood friend of one of his maids, Maria, with whom he used to play as a child. They used to play with a dog that they named Nero. Even now, they have remained close to each other, and Maria is one of the few people who is not afraid to talk sincerely to Jacopo.

Gradually, Jacopo's relationship with his wife worsens, as he thinks she is cheating on him with other men. He decides to lock her up in the garden shed, where she is only in contact with Maria, who brings her food. The White-Haired Girl then decides to send him letters, to prove to her husband that she loves only him; however, the letters are altered by Maria, who actually wants to take revenge on Jacopo and especially on his family, who did not hesitate to murder his father and grandfather to become the most powerful family in the city. Jacopo thinks that the letters of the White-Haired Girl are intended for her lovers, which makes him more and more unhappy and angry. He decides, however, to free his wife on the opening day of his railroad project; but she has left only a letter, suggesting that she has gone mad in her love, and is nowhere in sight. Jacopo understands then finally the machinations of Maria, whom he will confront thereafter. This one shoots him, but Jacopo manages then to kill her. In spite of the research that he carried out afterwards, he could never find his wife, and died rich and powerful, but alone.

In the Middle Ages, Jacopo is known as The Lord. He is one of the three men who was cursed by Morgana. He was first a slave, and knew Morgana when she was nine years old, after she was tortured by the previous Lord. He was one of the organizers of the slave revolt that took place against the ruling Lord, who was known to be cruel and obsessed with power, and it was on this occasion that he rescued the girl, whom he then sent to the brothel that several of his friends kept, and who took care of Morgana. Jacopo gradually fell in love with her, and never stopped taking care of her, becoming one of her only friends. However, on Morgana's birthday, an organized attack by bandits takes place at the brothel, and Morgana disappears. Jacopo, who wanted to be able to offer a life of comfort for her, where she would no longer have to suffer, then regrets his impotence, and ends up accepting a proposal that a woman made to him some time before: to make believe that he was her son, in order to claim the title of Lord of her husband, against whom she wishes to take revenge. Jacopo thus goes from slave to Lord, and is then called Jean-François Barnier. He seeks to make the city more livable for everyone, but still makes a number of enemies, making him somewhat paranoid in his relationships with others.

One day, he asks The Swordsman to capture the witch living near the lake, whose blood seems to have magical properties, and whom he wants to deliver to the Church to perform his miracles; the people would then stop thinking that he is only interested in the economy, but also shows his support for the Church. However, he did not think that the witch in question was actually Morgana; she did not recognize him, and saw him as the former Lord who had tortured her; he then locked her up in the observation tower, but was wracked with guilt, the reason he had come to power in the first place being his regret at not being able to make Morgana happy.

After his death, the girl curses The Lord alongside The Swordsman and Mell, never having recognized him as having also been the slave with whom she had befriended deeply; she curses him so that his obsession with money and power will forever keep him from being happy, and he will always be alone. Michel is the only one able to teach Morgana the truth, and the love Jacopo really had for her. Jacopo's soul is held captive in the mansion, but he is eventually freed by Morgana at the request of Michael, who has convinced her to end the curse.