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Montresor describes his family coat of arms: a golden foot in a blue background crushing a snake whose fangs are embedded in the foot's heel, with the motto Nemo me impune lacessit ("No one provokes me with impunity"). At one point, Fortunato makes a gesture that Montresor does not recognize and deduces that Montresor is not a mason.
I am adding a character section to the article : Montresor- The narrator of the story who has laid out a plan to kill Fortunato for the amount of pain he has caused Montresor for a long period of time. Comes from a wealthy respected family and has pride in his family name. Fortunato- A wine lover who has been causing harm to the narrator.
Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor (c. 1606–1663) was a French aristocrat and Count of Montrésor, who played a role in the intrigues of the first half of the 17th century, and was also a memoir-writer.
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Montresor Herringbone hates his wife Annabelle and her black cat. One night on a ramble about town, he happens upon a wine tasting event and challenges the world's foremost wine taster, Fortunato Luchresi, to a contest. Herringbone successfully identifies each wine, but becomes drunk.
Leon Fortunato, who is here revealed as the False Prophet, calls down lightning and fire from heaven to kill those who do not worship the image. David and his new fiancée Annie Christopher (who works in the palace and is also a believer) are stationed in different areas as they watch the resulting chaos.
Florio rides from Lucca and is joined by three riders who turn out to be Fortunato, Pietro and Bianca. They see a dilapidated ruin in the distance and Florio recognises it as the lady's palace. Pietro and Fortunato explain it is a former temple of Venus and say there are legends about people who have been tempted by spirits there.
Montresor, the bat ridden by "Iron Tail" in the children's movie Here Comes Peter Cottontail; Montrésor, a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France; Château de Montrésor, a medieval castle in that commune; Randall's Island, called Montresor's Island in the 18th century, an island in the East River in New York City