Inside the story
Meet Benedetto
Benedetto, also known as Andrea Cavalcanti, is the illegitimate son of Villefort, abandoned as an infant and raised among criminals. When he enters Parisian society under a false noble identity, the Count of Monte Cristo presents him as a young man of status and refinement.
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A good-looking but dissolute young man of striking dark features, elegantly and expensively dressed to pass as an Italian aristocrat, though a hard, corrupt cast betrays his true nature.
