Bianca Solderini
Bianca Solderini is a fictional character in
Anne Rice's
The Vampire Chronicles. She appeared in "
The Vampire Armand" and "
Blood and Gold".
Bianca was born in
Florence,
Italy in approximately the late
1470s. She has wavy golden hair which she often interweaves with pearls and sharp grey eyes and is often described as a woman painted by
Botticelli.
She lived a happy mortal life with her brothers until they died and she was forced to depend financially on her evil kinsmen who were bankers. They provided amply for her as long as she killed those who they instructed her to kill. She did this by opening her house to virtually all as an amiable and graceful hostess and secretly placing poison in the wine cups of those whom her said kinsmen wanted dead.
She was a renowned
Venetian courtesan when
Marius came to know her. Marius immediately fell in love with her and became obsessed with her, contemplating to make her a vampire. A few years after the two knew each other,
Armand arrived on the scene and also fell in love with Bianca. The three formed an amiable sort of love triangle before The Children of Darkness, led by
Santino, destroyed Marius's palazzo, burned Marius and took away Armand.
After the burning, Marius, severely weakened, called mentally to Bianca to help him and Bianca went to him right away. Marius had to make Bianca a vampire so that she could bring victims to him so that he can heal.
The two stayed together for nearly two hundred years, caring for
Those Who Must Be Kept, before Bianca left Marius in Dresden. It is not known where she went after leaving Marius or even whether she lives still. The most recent sighting of her was by Armand in Paris in the early
1800s.
