What is the name of the narrator in Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'?

The narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is named Montresor.

Montresor tells the story directly, recounting how he took revenge on Fortunato, a man who had supposedly inflicted “a thousand injuries” and then insulted him. Poe never specifies exactly what the insult was, leaving Montresor’s motive morally unsettling and psychologically uncertain. The first-person narration also makes the reader experience the crime through the perpetrator’s controlled, self-justifying voice.

During Carnival in an unnamed Italian city, Montresor lures the drunken Fortunato into the family catacombs by claiming to possess a rare cask of Amontillado. Once Fortunato enters a niche, Montresor chains him to the wall and seals the opening with masonry, leaving him to die.

Fortunato is the victim, not the narrator; Luchresi is another wine connoisseur whose name Montresor uses to provoke Fortunato’s pride. “The Cask of Amontillado” was first published in 1846 and is one of Poe’s most famous tales of revenge, burial alive, and unreliable narration.