 Dr. Lecters Florentine alias, Dr. Fell, is taken from a rhyming  epigram by 17th century English satirist Thomas Brown: "I do not  love thee, Dr. Fell; The reason why I cannot tell. But this alone I  know full well: I do not love thee, Dr. Fell." The alias is also a  reference to the "Silence of the Lambs" book where J. Gump, a.k.a.  Buffalo Bill, lived in Fell Street.