Don Iolio Contrario

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A Venetian merchant who argued the toss about everything, most famously captured in a brooding Velasquez-esque portrait by mad-haired Bavarian countess Birgit von Sachsen-Rampton in 1734.

Protagonist in Büchstein’s tragicomedy La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza

See also

• Jolly Contrarian
• La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza