Ben Jonson's Volpone saves the reader a trip back to the Dramatis Personae page by naming its characters appropriately. As I put my appreciation of Jonson's consideration aside I started to wonder if there were a greater purpose to his forthright nomenclature. The first observation on these names I made was the grouping of Volpone's "suitors" who are each named after carrion birds. Voltore (vulture), Cobaccio