Denis Lawson
— Narrator
Simon Thorp
— Gabriele De Mussis
Vincent Carmichael
— Giovanni Boccaccio
Philip Madoc
— Gentile da Foligno
Jonathan Firth
— Louis Heyligen
Patrick Toomey
— Robert of Avesbury
Nicholas Rowe
— Gui de Chauliac
Timothy Watson
— Bailiff of the Court
Dorian Lough
— Nicholas Deneys
Susan Engel
— Lady Rose de Saxham
Mark Tandy
— Brother John Clynn