Giata Magdalena Alberti

Giata Magdalena Alberti (called Giada) is a late-15th Century Florentine living in Venice. She passes her time spending her condottieri husbands' money and entertaining the visitors of her father’s house in Venice by hosting weekly salons. Her ability to read, write and act as a liaison between the artists and their patron (her father) enables her to participate in social situations which most respectably married women would never be privy.

Her hobbies include purchasing fabrics and jewels, working on her herbal experiments, occasional hawking (on the Terra Firma), mediating contests of skill and chance, and traveling to Mantua, Milan, and Ferrara to visit her friends at Court.