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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Father Dougal Mcguire, Father Ted Crilly, Artemis Fowl Ii, Angel, Banshee, Connor O'neill, Siryn, Buck Mulligan, Nina Williams, Bootstrap Bill Turner, Black Tom Cassidy, Doyle, Aidan Brosnan, Jim Mcdonald, Eddie Royle, Seamus and Maggie Mcfly, Stephen Maturin, Malachy Fisher, Bishop Brennan, Fiona Glenanne, Adolfo Pirelli, Father Noel Furlong, Mrs. Doyle, Father Jack Hackett, the Barrytown Trilogy, Artemis Fowl I, Ciaran Mccarthy, Morholt, Padraig Connolly, Father Larry Duff, Patrick "Paddy" Dignam, Sean Devlin. Excerpt: Signor Adolfo Pirelli , also known as Daniel O'Higgins or Davey Collins is a fictional character from Stephen Sondheim 's musical Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street . He is a supporting antagonist in the story.Character overview Pirelli is first introduced as an Italian barber who is "all the rage" in Victorian London . He is very theatrical and dresses in extravagant clothing. Pirelli mercilessly beats his young apprentice, Tobias Ragg , for the slightest infraction, and often for no reason at all. His real name is actually Daniel O'Higgins, and he was Sweeney Todd's assistant as a boy.Pirelli claims to have shaved the King of Naples and the Pope , arrogantly referring to himself as "the King of the Barbers and the Barber of Kings." As part of his act, he pretends to be a devout Christian , at one point praising God for bestowing the gift of talent upon him.Fictional character history The main character, Sweeney Todd, and his accomplice Mrs. Lovett are in a square where Pirelli's assistant, Tobias Ragg, is advertising a concoction of his master's entitled Pirelli's Miracle Elixir which is purported to stimulate the growth of hair. Todd takes one sniff of the mixture and denounces the Elixir as "an arrant fraud" concocted of "piss and ink."Enraged, ...