# Perissa — The Faerie Queene character guide

> Perissa in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** young Perissa

**First appearance:** 0037-canto-ii

## Who they are

Medina's intemperate sister who represents excess.

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