Leeneia, the full notes are on my website www.annelister.com and on the Blog page. We have a slight technical issue in putting them on the podcast page but we're working on it.
In the light of your comments, I'll check where else I might add the character names, but they are on the notes/blog - and thank you, Monique, for the pronunciation advice. This is my own translation/adaptation, and the notes on my website explain some of the omissions. There are two surviving MSS, both in the Bibliothèque Nationale and one of which I have handled - but both of which I have studied in detail. The 1856 English translation is not entirely accurate and was based on a French version, also not entirely accurate. There are a number of more recent editions (the most recent by Charmaine Lee, who is British but based in Italy, so with notes in Italian).
And yes, the violence is fairly graphic but there are a lot of redeeming features, I think, to take you past that. Not all the episodes are as bloody!