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Antonio Olivares
Doña Isabella Olivares is Antonio Olivares’s second wife and Inez Olivares’s mother. Born in New Orleans and educated in France, Isabella blends a devout Catholicism with a love of fine parties and gossip. Her vanity—particularly her desire to appear much younger than she is—almost prevents her from testifying in court to maintain her husband’s inheritance. But after some interference from Latour and Vaillant, Isabella is able to sacrifice her own material desires, instead choosing to prioritize her daughter’s financial welfare and the money that will fund Latour’s new cathedral.
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Isabella Olivares Character Timeline in Death Comes for the Archbishop
The timeline below shows where the character Isabella Olivares appears in Death Comes for the Archbishop. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 6: Don Antonio
...New Orleans, Olivares had returned to Santa Fé with his second wife, the French-educated Doña Isabella. Doña Isabella is a devout Catholic, and she loves hosting priests at Olivares’s elaborate dinner...
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Because Doña Isabella has maintained her youthful looks well into middle age, there is lots of gossip about...
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Isabella and Olivares have one daughter, an unmarried woman (likely in her 40s) named Inez. Though...
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Book 6: The Lady
...Olivares’s brothers are contesting the will. They claim that Inez is too old to be Isabella’s daughter—and because Isabella does not want to reveal her real age in court, she refuses...
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Vaillant arrives to see the Olivares home already in disarray. When Isabella meets him, her eyes are red from crying, but Vaillant is not gentle; instead, he...
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...his case, and Vaillant feels gratified, though Latour cannot help but regret being “cruel” to Isabella. The night after the trial, after a crowd of friends gathers at the Olivares house,...
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