Corso Garofani

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Concept: Artist
Born: 1202 AD
Embraced: 1230 AD
Clan: Toreador (formerly Ishtarri)

Background. Originally from Pisa, Corso moved to Rome when his benefactor, Monsignor Pandolfo Grassi, offered him to decorate a new chapel in the capital of the Papal State.

Year 1230 - 1347. After the events surrounding the Storm of Souls, Corso returns to Rome to reunite with his family. The holiness of Rome is too much to bear for him, so he decides to move back to Toscana.

Thanks to the connections of both his family and his wife's, they buy a villa with adjacent lands in the countryside of Firenze, where they open a vineyard. Corso hides his condition as a debilitating disease, making less and less public appearances. When his wife dies a few years after, he barely leaves the villa, focusing on his art.

He leaves the upkeep of the vineyard to his kids and grandkids, slowly changing his identity to that of a reclusive benefactor and bussiness partner with ties to the family. The vineyard grows to be a little community he names Bellezza. To the people of the vineyards, and to his own descendants, he's known as Messer Rossi Leone.

Every month or so he travels to Firenze to keep his addiction in check, and socialize with fellow kindred. During one of his visits he befriends the poet Dante Alighieri. He's inspired by his Divina Commedia, and paints several canvas to illustrate's Dante's view of the Afterlife.

He also meets a talented painter named Giotto; the two artists spend much time together, with Corso setting the fundaments of the naturalistic style and the Florentine School.

Once a year he travels to France to pay his respect to Queen Esclarmonde, and to keep track of the political landscape of kindred society.

Closest Family Relations 
Father, Baldovino (b. 1182 - 1262 AD), florist
Mother, Lina (b. 1185 - 1262 AD), florist
- Brother, Ludovico (b. 1200 - 1245 AD), florist, helps the family, unmarried
- Sister, Fea (b. 1208 - 1263 AD), married, moved to Firenze

Wife, Lisabetta (b. 1202 - 1242 AD), daughter of a rich merchant from Pisa
- Daughter, Ginevra (b. 1218 - 1293 AD)
- Son, Simone (b. 1222 - 1312 AD)

Paintings
"Nameless Guilt" AD 1230, Sketch (7 successes)
- A young girl sitting naked in bed. Painted after Corso's first accidental murder caused by feeding.
- Current owner: Corso.

"Crimson Tides" AD 1230, Oil on canvas (3 + 5 + 6 successes)
- A high priest standing on a hill, overlooking two armies in battle. A red-blood moon in the sky. Painted for the Elder vampire Gabrin.
- Current owner: Gabrin.

"And Mauve feeds on Ash" AD 1230, Oil on canvas (6 + 5 + 7 successes)
- A dragon stuck in a pool of rot fills a theater stage. Ghostly children heads are the spectators. Painted following the events surrounding lady Voletta's death.
- Current owner: Corso.

"On Futility" AD 1230, Oil on canvas, with drops of holy water from the caves of St. Timothy, and drops of blood from the Gheists and Cappadocian bloodline (2 + 5 + 9 successes)
- Cain/Ioveanus looks in desperation at the corpse of Abel/Anpeth, while a storm of souls gathers around them. An angelic creature (Ankou) looks down at them with pity in his eyes.
- Current Owner: Destroyed during the Storm of Souls.

"To a Friend" AD 1230, Oil on canvas (8 + 6 + 5 successes)
- Black Queen Esclarmonde in diaphanous dress, surrounded by masked dancers bathed in blue light. One dancer has no mask, and bears the frightened gaze of a young and beatiful woman.
- Current Owner: Queen Esclarmonde.

"What Tyler?" AD 1385, Oil on canvas (2 + 6 + 1 successes)
- The meeting between Wat Tyler and the King of England. The PCs are among the crowd. There's a dog dirty with mud, his face is the face of Claudius Joveanus.
- Current Owner: Corso.