Dramatis Personae and Outline

My personal to-do list for this work's writing process.

Dramatis Personae

 

Non-Fictional:

 

Edward Marcus Day

-Aliases: Eduardo di Valferno, Edvard Marqués.

 

Vincent Penn

-Aliases: Vincenzo Peruggia

 

Yves Chaudrón

-Master forger.

 

Alphonse Bertillon

-Police detective and fingerprint/anthropometry expert.

 

Guillaume Apollinaire

-Avant Garde poet

 

Pablo Picasso

-Surrealist painter, friend of Apollinaire

 

Director General Théo Homolle

-Curator of Louvre Museum in Paris

 

Alfred Geri

-Curator of Uffizi Museum in Florence

 

Fictional:

 

Ophelie Homolle                                                                                                                  

-Curator’s daughter

 

Armitage

-Corrupt French ambassador

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sources:

 

http://www.yourbrushwiththelaw.com/csac/mona_lisa.htm

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_lisa

Outline Dump:

 

Prologue: The closing episode of Vincent’s trial for art theft in Boston comes to a favorable end, with not enough evidence to implicate him. During the trial, Vincent spies a strange man in attendance, who quickly becomes the center of his worries. The man is soon revealed to be Edward Day, a more refined art thief with some prior relationship to Vincent, cousins perhaps, and brings to the table a very enticing offer.

 

Chapter 1: Follow Alphonse Bertillon and the makings of the Ahab-esque obsession to romanticize crime, opposing statistics. He believes in the one correct way to solve every problem. Set up as a counter to eventual Edward, Bertillon exactly spells out to criminal the nature of one crime, one culprit, and the utter infallibility of his justice system. Explains the dawn of fingerprinting as the beginning of the end for all crime.

 

- What needs to be done leading up to heist?

         - Introduce most of ensemble

         - Connect Armitage and Geri, establish nationalism, war coming?

         - Edward makes the deal with Vincent

         - Reaffirm Bertillon as a true detective

         - Edward finalizes his deal with Chaudrón

         - Introduce the two avante garde artists, plus humor, imply Ophelie

         - Vincent makes transcendental decision to go along with it

         - Introduce D.G. Homolle, protects daughter and museum

- Now ready for the heist scene

 

Chapter 2: Establish Armitage as corrupt but reluctant French ambassador to Italy who correctly feels a hastily approaching world conflict, and wants Italy to survive. He is able to extract symbolism from artwork and relate them to nodal points in history, feeling there are too few positive indications left in the world. Geri resists, affirmed that whatever the case, Italy will have the last word.

 

Chapter 3: Renegade poet Guillaume Apollinaire decides to save the world