He was strongly built, but very lean, and his features stood out in bold and sharp relief from the setting of his short black hair and pointed beard.

His nose was perhaps a little large for his face, and the unusual brilliancy of his eyes gave him an expression of restless energy; there was something noble in the shaping of his high square forehead and in the turn of his sinewy throat.
His hands were broad and brown, but nervous and well knit, with straight long fingers and squarely cut nails.

Many women said Don Giovanni was the handsomest man in Rome; others said he was too dark or too thin, and that his face was hard and his features ugly.

There was a great difference of opinion in regard to his appearance.

Don Giovanni was not married, but there were few marriageable women in Rome who would not have been overjoyed to become his wife.