Maestra Giuliana Salviati

OL, CP, CGD, SN, QOC

I started in the SCA in 1991, at the Incipient College of Rencester in the Barony of Tir-y-Don in Atlantia. I registered my previous persona name, Muireann ní Riordáin, during that time. In my junior year, I began a two-year tenure as seneschale of the College, during which the group left its incipient status. After graduating from the College of William and Mary, I moved to the Barony of Ponte Alto, became active there, and have remained so ever since.

I quickly found my niche in the SCA in the Arts and Sciences. Many activities interest me and I have tried my hand at a number of different arts. Costuming and mosaics are two of my passions, and I have spent a great deal of time learning as much as I possibly can about them both. In the past few years I developed another passion, for Florence of the fifteenth century. This prompted me to change my persona from an Irish woman of indeterminate time to that of a Florentine lady of the 1470s, Giuliana Salviati. I felt, and still feel, that my new persona suited me far better than the old one, and it has become a vehicle for more in-depth persona research.

Although A&S remains my first love, I have also been moved to serve the Society in whatever way I can. I have held offices, from small college-level up to kingdom-level. I have taught classes at University of Atlantia and at the Pennsic War. I have organized and judged A&S competitions, and I founded the kingdom costumers' guild, in which I still serve as guild head. I'm sure I will continue to find opportunities to serve the fairest kingdom in the Known World.

Offices and Positions Held

Emergency Deputy for Kingdom Minister of Arts and Sciences
2002 - present
Guild Head, Saint Anne's Guild of Clothiers
2000 - present
Baronial Seneschale, Barony of Ponte Alto
2000 - 2002
Baronial Artisan, Barony of Ponte Alto
1998
Baronial Minister of Arts and Sciences, Barony of Ponte Alto
1997 - 2000
College Seneschale, College of Rencester
1993 - 1995

Awards Received

Mistress of the Laurel, 2004
Patent of Arms, 2004
Grant of Arms, 2000
Companion of the Golden Dolphin, 2000
Companion of the Pearl, 1999
Award of Arms, 1995
Companion of the Queen's Order of Courtesy, 2004
Companion of the Undine, 2004
Companion of the Silver Nautilus, 1998
Companion of the Swan and Cygnet, 1995
Companion of the Garland, 1999

Classes Taught

2004

Clothing in Quattrocento Florence
(University of Atlantia #61, Courtland, VA)
Daily Life in Quattrocento Florence
(University of Atlantia #61, Courtland, VA)

2003

Italian Renaissance Headgear
(University of Atlantia #60, Florence, SC)
Clothing in Quattrocento Florence
(Pennsic War XXXII, Slippery Rock, PA)
Daily Life in Quattrocento Florence
(Pennsic War XXXII, Slippery Rock, PA)
Clothing in Quattrocento Florence
(University of Atlantia #59, Gambrills, MD)
Interpreting Clothing from Period Sources
(University of Atlantia #59, Gambrills, MD)

2002

History of Mosaics
(University of Atlantia #57, Raleigh, NC)
Florentine Clothing of the Late 15th Century, As Seen in the Tornabuoni Chapel Frescoes
(University of Atlantia #56, Florence, SC)
History of Mosaics
(University of Atlantia #56, Florence, SC)

2001

Interpreting Garb from Period Sources
(University of Atlantia #53, Augusta, GA)
Early Tudor Clothing
(University of Atlantia #52, College Park, MD)

2000

Interpreting Garb from Period Sources
(University of Atlantia #51, Wilmington, NC)
How to Use Period Patterns
(University of Atlantia #51, Wilmington, NC)
Early Tudor Clothing
(University of Atlantia #50, Charlottesville, VA)
Interpreting Garb from Period Sources
(University of Atlantia #50, Charlottesville, VA)

1999

The Medieval Book
(University of Atlantia #47, Harrisonburg, VA)

1998

A Bone to Pick
(University of Atlantia #45, Blacksburg, VA)

Events Autocratted/Head Cooked

Crown Tournament, co-autocrat, 1998
St. Paddy's Day Bloodbath, head cook (lunch) 1997, 1998
I Pugni, co-head cook, 1996
Heralds' and Scribes' Symposium, autocrat, 1993