Il viaggio a Reims

Madame Cortese, Tyrolean hostess of the spa hotel

Contessa di Folleville, a fashionable young widow

Corinna, a famous Roman poetess

Marchesa Melibea, the Polish widow of an Italian general killed on their wedding night

Conte di Libenskof, Russian general in love with Marchesa Melibea

Chevalier Belfiore, handsome young French officer and spare-time painter

Lord Sidney, English colonel secretly in love with Corinna

Don Alvaro, Spanish admiral in love with Marchesa Melibea

Barone di Trombonok, German major and music lover

Don Profondo, scholar and lover of antiquities, friend of Corinna

Don Prudenzio, doctor at the spa

Modestina, the Contessa di Folleville's chamber maid

Don Luigino, cousin of the Contessa di Folleville

Maddalena, hotel housekeeper from Normandy

Antonio, maître d'hotel

Zefirino, courier

Gelsomino, valet

Delia, young Greek girl who is Corinna's travelling companion