The Count's faithful old comrade, now captain of his yacht, who delivers the parting letter and points the reunited lovers to the vanishing sail of their departing benefactor.
Jacopo, the loyal Corsican smuggler who once nursed Edmond Dantès aboard the Young Amelia and whose fidelity the count never forgot, is now captain of the count's yacht. In the dawn after the miracle on the Island of Monte Cristo, he awaits Maximilian Morrel and Valentine de Villefort among the rocks and delivers the Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantès)'s farewell letter—bestowing the grotto and the count's estates on the couple and directing them to Leghorn, where Noirtier awaits to bless his granddaughter's marriage. When the lovers ask where the count is, Jacopo points to the horizon, where 'a large white sail' carries Edmond and Haydée away forever.
The old comrade's last service is to launch the two young people into their happiness and mark, for them, the departure of the benefactor who reshaped all their lives.
A weathered Corsican sailor of middle age, sun-browned and sturdy, plainly dressed in a seaman's garb.
The count's faithful yacht-captain who delivers the parting letter and points to his vanishing sail.