Valeria Cabrielli

Photo
Valeria Cabrielli, receiving her Dolphin at Gyldenholt Unbelted 2016.
Information
Preferred title: Not specified Their Pronouns: Not specified Resides: Gyldenholt Status: Active Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
Heraldry
Per bend gules and Or, two roses counterchanged argent and gules
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Persona

Robbed at a tender age of that which is most valuable to a woman of virtue, and being further wronged by a father who drank away much her dowry, Valeria found herself unable to marry a man appropriate to her family's station. Her mother had died young, and her step mother was formal and distant. (Perhaps because she was constantly squeezing her father for each penny the household needed to survive.) At seventeen, she eloped secretly with a young soldier, Niccolo. Their love was true and sweet, but woefully short. He went aboard a ship to help the Venetians defend Cypress, and died in the fray. Valeria was a widow not yet twenty, but with the benefit of his commission money.

Having some funds now to secure herself, but uninterested in marrying again for love of her Niccolo, she left her family's home attempting to find some way to make a place for herself. Her brother, an educated man, who frequently attended the humanist salons of the era to discuss the new philosophy, had taught her to read. And so, armed with, if not a great world of knowledge, more ability than most women of her age and birth, she went to court. There the women were gossiping to one side, while the men played at the chess and gambled boldly at card games. Valeria, with the kind of confidence born of a desperate gamble, sat down in an empty chair at the men's card game, and placed an ante, to much shock and whispering among the ladies. And also to the smiling amusement of one senior cortigiana. So it was that Valeria received a mentor and began to learn a trade that would judge her for a different set of virtues.

Activities

Scribal Arts: Illuminator and aspiring calligrapher.

Fencing: 32" spadroon. Home practice: Gyldenholt.

Bardic arts: vocal and mandolin. Instrument: Magdalena is a post period bowl-back mandolin made in 1865.

Associates

Apprenticed to Dame Richenda Elizabeth Coffin

Classes Taught

Class Materials	Category	Event
File:ColorHandout.pdf	Paint Mixing: Good Color Practice	Category: Scribal Arts	Event: Collegium Caidis 2016
File:LayoutClass.pdf	Adapting Historical References into Scrolls	Category: Scribal Arts	Event: Collegium Caidis 2016

Projects & Publications

Projects

Image Preview	Project	Reason	Event
	White Scarf Roll of Arms	Closing of the Order of the White Scarf.	Spring Coronation. A.S. L.
	Talon Crescent Treaty	Formation of the Talon Crescent War.	Talon Crescent War, Saturday Court A.S. XLIX.
	Heraldic Banner for Barony of Gyldenholt	Gift to the populace by Giles and Giuseppi	Gyldenholt Unbelted. A.S. L

Scrolls

Image Preview	Award	Recipient
	Defense	Colwyn Stagghorn
	Detail of Defense: Arms	Colwyn Stagghorn
	Detail of Defense: The Household of Saint Valentine Badge	Colwyn Stagghorn
	Defense	Michael Mallory
	Detail of Defense: Arms	Michael Mallory
	White Scarf	Caitríona_Ghabhalfhada
	Duellist	Snorri Snarfari Bjornsson & Sviatoslava Akilina Vasil'evskaia zhena Nikolaeva
	Duellist	John James MacCrimmon
	Detail of Duellist: Duellist Badge	John James MacCrimmon
	Laurel	Lot Ramirez
	Detail of Laurel: Portrait of Lot Ramirez	Lot Ramirez
	Lux Caidis	Lot Ramirez
	Detail of Lux Caidis: Arms	Lot Ramirez