oh yes, Hannibal Lecter speaks beautiful Tuscan, and can quote Dante like nobody else, and managed to impress the Florence Studiolo (however, I'm not sure if that particular fine arts commission exists in reality) - though I'm sure they somehow managed to leave that out of the 'Hannibal' movie. I'm not a big fan of the movies, but the books are brilliant, and 'Hannibal' is one of the books I keep rereading. I'm sort of a Lecter fangirl, because he's just so perfect and intellectual and has amazing taste and is super intelligent and only has this minor drawback of being a cannibal.

But, you know, everybody has flaws.