Book Characters for nickpelling

Adrian Nerí

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Alan Turing

• The Code Book by Simon Singh
• Code Breaking: A History and Explanation by Rudolph Kippenhahn
• Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park by F.H. Hinsley
• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn (only in 1996 rev)

The Alchemist

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Alice Butler

• PopCo by Scarlett Thomas

Alphonse Bertillon

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Amy Elizabeth Thorpe

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Andreas Vesalius

• The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter

Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Electress Palatine

• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Anne Boleyn

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Antoine Rossignol

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Antony Fortuny

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Athanasius Kircher

• Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Paula Findlen

Auguste Kerckhoffs

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Beatriz Aguilar

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Blaise de Vigenere

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Boris Hagelin

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Brother Francisco Colonna, Dominican Friar

• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

Cabanis

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Camillo Baldi

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Cathedrals

• The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages (New Horizons) by Alain Erlande-Brandenburg

Catherine of Aragon

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Charles Babbage

• The Code Book by Simon Singh

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

Clara Barceló

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Claudius Ptolemy

• Astrology: A History by Peter Whitfield

Contessina de' Bardi

• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Cosimo de' Medici, the Elder

• Medici Money Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Parks Tim
• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Cosimo II de' Medici

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

The crystal merchant

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Daniel Sempere

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Doctor Baró

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Domenico

• The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg (Menocchio)

Don Federico Flaviá

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Doña Encarna

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Dr. Francis Willis

• The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Edgar Allan Poe

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Edgar Wind

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Edward Kelley

• The Queen's Conjuror by Benjamin Woolley

Eleonora de' Medici, Duchess of Mantua

• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Eleonora of Toledo

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Eliseo de Treviso

• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

• The Queen's Conjuror by Benjamin Woolley

Elizebeth Smith Friedman

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Emperor Rudolf II

• The Queen's Conjuror by Benjamin Woolley

The Englishman

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Erasmus, Desiderius, ca. 1469-1536

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Eric Nave

• Emperor's Codes, the Breakingof Japan's Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith

Etienne Bazeries

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Fatima

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (the girl at the oasis)

Felice Feliciano

• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

Fermín Romero de Torres

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon (Antonio José Gutiérrez Alcayete)

Filarete

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Filippo Brunelleschi

• BRUNELLESCHI'S DOME: THE STORY OF THE GREAT CATHEDRAL IN FLORENCE by ROSS KING
• Brunelleschi: Studies of His Technology and Inventions (Dover Books on Architecture) by Frank D. Prager

Fra Filippo Lippi

• Lives of the Artists by Vasari

Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

Francis Galton

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Francisco Colonna, Lord of Palestrina

• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

François I, King of France

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Galileo Galilei

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg
• Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy by Mario Biagioli

Geoffrey Chaucer

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Georges de Selve

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North (bishop of Lavaur)

Georges Painvin

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Gilbert S. Vernam

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Giordano Bruno

• The Pope and the Heretic: The True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition by Michael White

Giotto di Bondone

• Lives of the Artists by Vasari

Giovanni Antonio Campano

• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici

• Medici Money Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Parks Tim

Giovanni Morelli

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Giuliano de' Medici

• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Giulio Mancini

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Gorgo of Sparta

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Gustavo Barcelò

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

The Gypsy fortune teller

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (the old woman)

Hans Holbein, the Younger

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Henry VIII, King of England

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Herbert Yardley

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Hippocrates

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg
• The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter

Hugh Sinclair

• Emperor's Codes, the Breakingof Japan's Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith

Inspector Francisco Javier Fumero Almuñiz

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Isaac Monfort

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Ivan Lermolieff

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Jan Purkyne

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Jean de Dinteville

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North (bailly of Troyes)

Jean-François Champollion

• The Code Book by Simon Singh

Johanna of Austria

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

John Colet

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

John Dee

• The Queen's Conjuror by Benjamin Woolley

John Tiltman

• Emperor's Codes, the Breakingof Japan's Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith

John Wallis

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

Jonas Salk

• The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter

Jorge Aldaya

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Joseph Cabestany

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Julián Carax

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Julián Siempere Aguilar

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Leon Battista Alberti

• LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI by ANTHONY GRAFTON
• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

Leonardo da Vinci

• How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci by Michael Gelb
• Leonardo da vinci by charles nichol
• Leonardo: The First Scientist by Michael White
• Lives of the Artists by Vasari
• Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci by Edward MacCurdy

Leone Allacci

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Logistica

• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna
• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin (godess)

Lorenzo de' Medici

• Medici Money Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence by Parks Tim
• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern
• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Louis Pasteur

• The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter

Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici

• The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert

Mansfield Cumming

• Ace of Spies: The True Story of Sidney Reilly (Revealing History) by Andrew Cook

many others, real and mythological

• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

Marcus Manilius

• Astrology: A History by Peter Whitfield

Marguerite-Louise d'Orléans, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

Maria Magdelana of Austria

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

Marsilio Ficino

• The Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino (Studies in Imagination Series) by Thomas Moore

Mary F. S. Hervey

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Mary, Queen of Scots

• The Code Book by Simon Singh

María Craponcia

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

María Jacinta Coronado

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Mehmet the Conqueror

• Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time by Franz Babinger

Melchizedeck

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (the King of Salem)

Mercedes Pietro

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Merceditas

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Lives of the Artists by Vasari

Miquel Moliner

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Monsieur Roquefort

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Nicolaus Kratzer

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Nuria Monfort

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Pablo Cascos Buendía

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Padre Fernando Ramos

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Padre Vicente

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Pedro Sanmartí

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Penelope Aldaya

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Peter Apian

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Piero della Francesca

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Poli

• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

Polia

• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna

Poliphilo

• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna
• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

Profesor Javier Velazquez

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Queen Eleuterylida

• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna

Ramón Fumero

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Raphael, artist

• Lives of the Artists by Vasari

Ricardo Aldaya

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Rociíto

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Roger Bacon

• The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World by Lawrence Goldstone

Rudi Fabian

• Emperor's Codes, the Breakingof Japan's Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith

Salvador Jausá

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Sandro Botticelli

• Lives of the Artists by Vasari

Santiago

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Sherlock Holmes

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Sidney Reilly

• Ace of Spies: The True Story of Sidney Reilly (Revealing History) by Andrew Cook

Sigmund Freud

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Solomon

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Sophie Carax

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

St. Michael

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Thelemia

• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna
• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin (godess)

Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Thomas Henry Huxley

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Thomas More

• The Ambassadors' Secret by John David North

Thomas Young

• The Code Book by Simon Singh

Tomás Aguilar

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafon

Venus

• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna (Deity)
• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin (godess)

Vincent Taft

• The Real Rule of Four: The Unauthorized Guide to The New York Times #1 Bestseller by Joscelyn Godwin

Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern

Vlad III the Impaler

• Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time by Franz Babinger

Vlad Tepes / Vlad the Impaler

• Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time by Franz Babinger

Vlad the Impaler

• Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time by Franz Babinger

Voltaire "François-Marie Arouet", 1694-1778

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Voynich manuscript

• Le Code Voynich by Anonyme
• The Curse of the Voynich: The Secret History of the World's Most Mysterious Manuscript by Nick Pelling
• The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World by Lawrence Goldstone
• Voynich Manuscript an Elegant Enigma: An Elegant Enigma (Cryptographic Series , No 27) by M. E. D'Imperio
• The Voynich Manuscript: The Unsolved Riddle of an Extraordinary Book Which has Defied Interpretation for Centuries by Gerry Kennedy

Wilfrid Voynich

• The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World by Lawrence Goldstone
• The Voynich Manuscript: The Unsolved Riddle of an Extraordinary Book Which has Defied Interpretation for Centuries by Gerry Kennedy

William F. Friedman

• The codebreakers; the story of secret writing by David (1930-) Kahn

William Herschel

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg

Émile Gaboriau

• Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg