Vettoria di Giovanni da Verona was known as Caterine de Vantier until mid-2013.

I have my own website, which can be found here [1]. I imagine I will eventually migrate all my stuff to all be in the one location - when I get around to it....

Lady Vettoria di Giovanni da Verona is a 16th century Northern Italian lady. She was previously known as Lady Caterine de Vantier, a late 16th century Northern French or Flemish woman.

I take an interest in just about anything that I come across. However, I am specifically more focused in researching 16th century Italian cooking, 16th century candy making, herbs and plants (in a cooking and historical sense, NOT a naturopathic one),16th century clothing (women's, French court, Italian, Flemish working/middle class, English), gaming and gambling, period decorative styles and embellishment techniques (mostly on clothing and furniture), bobbin lace, and the occasional foray into a bit of embroidery when I forget that while I like working out patterns, I dislike the time commitment to actually producing finished embroidery. One day I would like to explore the 15th century too, but the 16th century just has so much stuff in it that I haven't quite made it there yet.

I currently hold the office of Herald of Ildhafn City. I have previously held the roles of Reeve and of A&S Officer.

Cooking.

One of the things I spend quite a lot of time on at the moment is translating period sources - mostly 16th century Italian recipes, or Nostradamus' candy recipes, into English. They used to be available on this website, however, I have now migrated them across to my personal website [2].

Redactions.

Less of a redaction, just a plain outright experiment, my attempt to create Sorbetto [3].

Recipe Trialling of three tortellini recipes. [4]

Recipe Trialling: Eggplant Recipes. [5]

Recipe Trialling: Meatballs, and Rice & Cheese. [6]

Recipe Trialling: Stuffed Leg of Lamb. [7]

Recipe Trialling: Three Serves of Asparagus. [8]

Recipe Trialling: Two Date Tortes. [9]

Midwinter Coronation Feast 2010 [10] - I wrote this up to enter in the feast competition for November Crown 2011.

Canterbury Faire Feast 2012.

I cooked the feast at Canterbury Faire this year. A lot of the recipes that I have been working on translating above and redacting happened because I wanted to feature them on the menu.

The menu can be found here [11].

My write up of the feast, as well as my working document for the feast (containing original recipes, ingredient lists & quantities for the feast, and cooking instructions), can be found here [12].

Other Projects

A Venetian Flag Fan for Lady Anna de Wilde for her birthday [13]