ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the influence of these messengers in determining the fate of the Urania's many characters, as well as their part in shaping the transformation of the world they inhabit. It considers the critical and unusual role of messengers in the Urania, focusing on the disparity between those who represent quotidian human concerns and those who bring news from the supernatural world or from humans with apparent occult powers. The vexed status of the emissaries portrayed in the Urania, therefore, coincides with complexities in the narrative's overall style and content. The chapter explores messengers, both human and otherworldy, as they function alternately as midwives and as obstacles to the new political world order that is growing throughout the Urania. Its emissaries, moreover, provide conflicting perspectives on their role within the political and romantic domains under scrutiny and on the need for messengers in order to propel the action in the desired direction.
