Bianca Maria Nardella

**Bianca Maria Nardella** is a half-blood witch (vampire), the daughter of Loredana Belacqua and Silvio Conti. Bianca Maria has two siblings, her elder sisters; Beatrice and Bettina. Her godmother is her aunt Febe Conti.

She was named after former Duchess of Milan, Bianca Maria Visconti. She began attending Beauxbatons Academy of Magic in 1723.

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## Biography

### Early childhood

Bianca Maria Nardella was born in 1989 to Loredana Belacqua and Silvio Conti. She is two years younger than her elder sister Beatrice, and one year younger than her elder sister Bettina. At least that's the story she tells the common mortal.

She's a Wizard Historian and retired Istituto Leonardo da Vinci (Switzerland) Professor. She explains her required "supplements" as part of her healthcare regimen. She's got a malediction, she suffers from a curse that's manifested in her as an illness that requires blood treatments.

She carefully selected the pieces of humanity she was familiar with to help reacclimatize herself. It took a long time to feel comfortable enough to try and assume her own identity, trying to be a person in this new world was even harder on her. In late 2044 she ventured out into the new world trying to rejoin society after turning her back on Muggles and leaving behind her humanity four decades earlier.

Her name was Malatesta Imperia della Rovere, she was born a couple of short years after the plague that nearly eradicated the Muggle population of Naples. The daughter of the vampire Adragna Imperiali and the Pure-Blood supremacist Opizzo della Rovere. She was a human bitten by a Vampire, the same curse her mother suffered from was now her own. Her father was a Dark Wizard who planned much of her early life experience. He put Adragna in the compromising situation that turned her into a full vampire. Opizzo had seen visions of an army of vampires, with his magical child as the leader of the future coven. He was a fool to think he'd ever have any control over a vampire, let alone a woman.

In 1722, over a decade after the Ministry of Magic disbanded and replaced the Wizards' Council, Opizzo was still out of a job. The mad wizard would've let the family hit rock bottom, dragged them down with him if he didn't have a woman like Adragna at his side. She's the type of matriarch that kept her family afloat by diving head first into the grimy criminal underbelly of wizarding society. She became the breadwinner and in her efforts this queen not only empowered her young daughter she also reinvigorated her dark and twisted king.

As a growing child she didn't seem to be magically adept for almost a decade which furiously upset her father. He subjected her to all sorts of tests trying to establish the wizarding blood. She learned of her magic when she was nine. Her father arranged to have her sent away to Hogwarts rather than her beloved Beauxbatons. He wanted her to have a better education, and to him that meant away. Had she been a squib he'd have sent her to boarding school even farther away than she could fathom. She attended her school of choice refusing to do what her father said. Her mother encouraged the rebellion and sent her young daughter to Beauxbatons.

### Beauxbatons Years (1723-1730)

Her magical education began Beauxbatons Academy of Magic in 1723.

During her time at Beauxbatons she met Beatrice Caracciolo, Luigi Pagano, Bettina Carafa, Antonio Scarlatti and Bianca and Gaetano Pimentel.

Her time in school saw the regency of Philip II, Duke of Orléans, and Cardinal Fleury, prime minister in all but name. It's in that time she developed a growing discontent with the monarchy and the established order.

## Adult Life

The Spanish Habsburgs were replaced a few short years after her birth by Austrian ones, until the two kingdoms were united under a single independent crown (Utriusque Siciliarum), that of Charles of Bourbon in 1734. While entertaining throngs of influential admirers at a bar with her knowledge and eloquence she gained favor of the king, Ferdinand IV of Naples. She was a gaining a reputation as a socialite being seen all over southern Italy in the company of writers and philosophers like Antonio Genovesi and Gaetano Filangieri. She hobnobbed with Muggle nobility who had absolutely no idea what she was.

She suggested the horseshoe-shaped auditorium for the opera house that was designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano and Angelo Carasale. She spearheaded the inauguration of the Teatro di San Carlo on 4 November 1737, on the king's name day, with a performance of the opera Domenico Sarro's Achille in Sciro, which was based on libretto by Metastasio which had been set to music that year by Antonio Caldara. Prior to news of the French Revolution she worked closely with architects Antonio Canevari, Giovanni Antonio Medrano, Ferdinando Fuga and Antonio Niccolini. She was instrumental in the completion of the Villa di Capodimonte in 1742.

She married Ramboldo Nardella in 1755, unaware of the creature that he truly was she was bitten and turned into a vampire.

Everything changed after several decades of privilege, in January 1799, when French revolutionary troops entered the city. Hailed by a pro-revolutionary minor part of the middle class, but had to face strong resistance by the royalist lazzari, fervidly religious they didn't support new ideas. The Neapolitan Republic tried to gain support by abolishing feudal privileges, but the people rebelled and in June 1799 the republicans surrendered. Upon the order of the restored monarchy, Admiral Horatio Nelson arrested the leaders of the revolution and handed them over for execution. The Parthenopaean Republic in Naples was suppressed by the British and Russians in 1799, and was following in 1805 by a full invasion.

In early 1806 Napoleon conquered the Kingdom of Naples. The Emperor Napoleon first named his brother Joseph Bonaparte to be King and then his brother-in-law and Marshal Joachim Murat in 1808, when Joseph was given the Spanish crown. She worked diligently behind the scenes assisting the latter as he created a communal administration led by a mayor, which was left almost intact by Ferdinand in 1815 as he regained his kingdom after the 1815 Neapolitan War in which the Austrians defeated Murat. On September 6, 1861, the kingdom was conquered by the Garibaldines and was handed over to the King of Sardinia: Garibaldi entered the city by train, descending in the square that today still bears his name. In October 1860 a plebiscite sanctioned the end of the Kingdom of Sicily and the birth of new Italian state, the United Kingdom of Italy.

On April 7, 1906 nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted, devastating Boscotrecase and seriously damaging Ottaviano.

During World War II, Naples was the first Italian city to rise up against the Nazi military occupation; between September 28 and October 1, 1943 the people of the city rose up and pushed the Germans out, in what became known as the "four days of Naples". She was being hailed as one of many heroes in the wizarding at the time the British Armoured patrols of the King's Dragoon Guards were allied to reach Naples. Followed by the Royal Scots Greys the troops of the US 82nd Airborne Division found Naples already free, but not without losses. They continued on instead towards Rome and she joined them fighting for Rome along side Muggles and wizard kind as she fought for Naples.

In 1944 another devastating eruption from Vesuvius occurred; images from this eruption were used in the film The War of the Worlds.

Napoli turned into an important transportation hub right before her eyes. The airport of Capodichino connectioned with several airports in Europe. The city had a port that connected to many Tyrrhenian Sea destinations, including Cagliari, Genoa and Palermo, often with fast ferries. Naples also had ferry connections to nearby islands and Sorrento, and fast rail connections to Rome and the south. She loved the famous light railway Circumvesuviana.

Unfortunately organized crime was deeply rooted in Naples. The Camorra, the feuding Neapolitan gangs and families, had a history. During 2004 over 120 people died in Naples in Camorra killings; many of the deaths were related to the drug trade.
## Physical description

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**Species:**
Vampire/Witch

**Gender:**
Female

**Height:**
5'9"

**Hair colour:**
Brown

**Eye colour:**
Grey

**Skin colour:**
Light

## Magical abilities and skills

* Herbology
* Potions
* Charms
* Vampire abilities

* Architecture {Design & Planning}
* Writing {Transcription}

## Possessions

* Wand: Oak
* Weapons: Sword, Pistol, Rifle
* Carpet Bag: Vials of blood

## Etymology

* Bianca Maria: Combination of the Italian name Bianca, which means "white" and is a cognate of the medieval name Blanche and of Maria, a Latin form of the Greek name Μαριαμ or Mariam or Maria.

* Nardella: Baptismal name meaning 'the son of Bernard'.