Don Iolio Contrario

The JC’s fictional heroes Preaching righteous truth with the power of metaphor. →Go uptown Don Iolio And His Mechanical Contraption, von Sachsen-Rampton, 1734. Index: Click ᐅ to expand: Fictional heroes Mythology Tell me more Sign up for our newsletter — or just get in touch: for ½ a weekly 🍺 you get to consult JC. Ask about it here.

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