Donatello Giovanni

As far back as he can remember, Donatello Giovanni recalls being the bearer of privilege. As a child, his family was the wealthiest and most powerful in their village in northern Italy. When he was a young scholar at medical school, he never had to live in poverty as did the other students. Even after he had been Embraced, when he volunteered to establish a base of operations for the Giovanni, he had “explained things” to the Sabbat and hadn’t bothered at all to speak with the beleaguered Camarilla prince, Michaela. So it continues to this night. Donatello is known around Little Italy and NoLita as the neighborhood’s patron saint. While he accepts that the Camarilla is now the prime mover and shaker in the city, he has informed its figureheads that certain Giovanni domains are sacrosanct. With his fingers in a dozen legitimate operations and three times as many illegal concerns (particularly with the Gambino crime family), Donatello is everything an organized crime enthusiast could want in a “Godfather.” And it’s still not enough. Donatello is responsible for negotiating with the Ventrue coalition that paid to sneak Camarilla Kindred into the city. He exerts direct influence over the Giovanni whose domain includes JFK airport. Even Kindred of other clans kick back a share of their profits to him, from the Setite gangs in Brooklyn to the Ventrue mafiosi in Man. hattan and Brujah toughs in the Bronx. The anarchs respect Donatello’s ability to h v e while independent, but they have no love for the man. Still, for a Kindred besieged on all sides by hungry neonates and jealous elders, Donatello makes sure the Giovanni can hold their own. Should this powerful Kindred somehow be removed from the picture, it might well spark a gang war that casts ripples through the Kindred community.

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