# Ludovico Settembrini — The Magic Mountain character guide

> Ludovico Settembrini in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Herr Settembrini, Settembrini, the Italian

**First appearance:** 0006-in-the-restaurant

## Who they are

An Italian humanist, writer, and freemason who becomes Hans Castorp's intellectual mentor at the sanatorium.

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