Memento Vivere

NPCs are available in a plethora of professions. This listing only displays the available Guild Leadership Levels, its Apprenticeship Levels, and a listing of available Guilds.

If you would like to have a character involved in the Guilds, I recommend you review the Guild Listing and the associative information of each guild. Then select a Guild, an Apprenticeship Level, and any Leadership Position (if desired). Using the below code ensures your association with the particular guild is noted.

Add the following code to a reply to the Listing Post.
❖ --- Gastaldo (Head)
❖ --- Massaro (overseer)
❖ --- Tansadori (responsible for taxes)
❖ --- Sindici (auditors)
❖ --- Scrivano (secretary)
❖ --- Capo Maestro (Guild Master)
❖❖❖ --- Maestro (Master)
❖❖❖❖❖ --- Lavorante (Journeyman: skilled laborer with a 7-10 year apprenticeship)
❖❖❖❖❖❖❖ --- Garzone (Apprentice)
❖❖❖❖❖❖❖❖❖ --- Garzonetto (lower Glassbower Apprentice)

The Arsenalotticrafts had a number of guilds based upon ship-building and outfitting specialties, including:
❖ -- Ropemakers,
❖ -- Sawyers,
❖ -- Stonemasons, and
❖ -- Carpenters / Builders.

Again, guilds were located all over the City:
❖ -- The Mercers and Cabinet-makers between the Rialto and Piazza San Marco;
❖ -- Goldsmiths and Spice-dealers close to the Rialto in Sestiere San Polo, for example.
❖ -- The Calzolai (calegheri/shoemakers) at San Toma (with the German branch later housed on Calle de la Botteghe near Campo Santo Stefano);
the Varotari (tanners) at Campo Santa Margherita after being persuaded to relocate a short distance to allow the expansion of the Carmine complex;
❖ -- more Battjoro (goldbeaters) at San Stae,
❖ -- woolworkers at Santo Stefano,
❖ -- builders at San Samuele, painters at Santa Sofia.

Aromatari: Perfumers who sold perfumed products such as waters, essences, and unguents.

Calegheri: cobblers; shoemakers who used new leather to create footwear (unlike the Zavateri, who used old leather for clogs and slippers).

Cartoleri: craftsmen who produced and sold playing cards. (craftsmen painted them by hand)

Compravendi pesse: brought together sellers of fish at the pole (wholesale)

Cristaleri de vero: craftsmen producers and sellers of glass crystal objects, such as glasses, vases, caskets, crosses, buttons and lenses for glasses.

Fritoleri: art of fritoleri (or furatoleri); preparing fried and other edible foods, which then sold cheaply in the furatole[\b], ("hot table"). Also prepares seasoned soups and macaroni, and for this reason a strong antagonism arose with the luganegheri , who also prepared soups.

Frutarioli: art of fruit sellers; The goods were mainly sold on the banks of San Marco and in Rialto, but once the duty was paid, they were transported in the myriad of small markets scattered in the districts. Typical was also the sale that took place directly from small boats that turned the internal streams, while the common people from above dropped the basket from the windows.
-- frutarioli: oranges and lemons
-- naranzeri: vegetables
-- herbaria : herbs
-- eggs: but without keeping more than 300 of them at a time.

Libreri: bookbinders, printers and booksellers

Luganegheri: prepares soups. Hence, a strong antagonism arose with the Fritoleri

Mureri: Builders; many skilled laborers in their own sub-guilds
-- Marangoni: carpenters
-- Taiapiera: masons
-- Fabbri: smiths
-- Lustradori: stone polishers
-- Fenestrari: window-makers


Osti e caneveri: the innkeepers and wine cellars responsible. By law (1455), the inns in Venice could never exceed the number of 20.

Passamaneri: craftsmen in the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings of applied braid, gold or silver cord, embroidery, colored silk, or beads for clothing or furnishings. Styles include the tassel, fringes, ornamental cords, galloons, pompons, rosettes, gimps, and vergoleri (silk cords used to tie hair) as well as other forms

Paternostreri: (also called margariteri or perleri ) were craftsmen producers and sellers of rosaries, necklaces and flowers in glass pearls.

Pestrineri: The art of working and selling and its derivative products: low- fat cheeses, butter, cream, ricotta

Pistori: the craftsmen who kneaded and shaped the bread, but who could also bake bread... but were not allowed to sell it directly to individual customers

Sempliciste : a person who grows or sells herbal essences; an herbalist that prepares herbal remedies of various kinds

Spitieri: the art, science, and practice of the preparation and dispensing of medicinal drugs. Arte Nobile (noble art)

Terazeri: craftsmen who built floors, using a specific and unique technique called tarasso, using a mixture of pebbles, marble shards and broken bricks, which was elastic, so to adapt the flooring to the continuous movements due to the water

Testori de seda: The art of testori de pani de seda , also called samiteri in the city. Nominally, artisans who produced silk and gold fabrics

Zavateri, who used old leather for clogs and slippers (unlike the Calegheri who were cobblers; shoemakers who used new leather to create footwear)

Wholesalers
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Retailers
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Drapers
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Merchant Seamen
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Apothecary
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Writers
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