Headmistress of the Open Fan Academy
Overview
The Headmistress of the Open Fan Academy is an Imperial title awarded to a citizen of the League. The motion to construct the Open Fan Cicisbeo Academy was passed by the Imperial Senate at the Autumn Equinox 386YE. The Headmistress of the Open Fan Academy is responsible for protecting the Open Fan Cicisbeo Academy and looking after visitors.
Responsibilities
The Headmistress of the Open Fan Academy has a responsibility to protect the Open Fan Cicisbeo Academy. If the academy, or its visitors, were to be threatened in any way, it would be the responsibility of the Headmistress of the Open Fan Academy to deal with those threats.
Powers
Academy Profits
The Headmistress of the Open Fan Academy has custodianship of a sinecure. They receive 216 rings each season.
Extensive Apartments
The Headmistress of the Open Fan Academy has exclusive use of the top-floor apartments at the Academy.
Appointment
The Headmistress of the Open Fan Academy is selected by unanimous decision of the League senators. If a unanimous decision cannot be reached, the title may be appointed by the Imperial Senate instead.
The title can be held by any League citizen. The Headmistress has tenure, and serves until they die or step down. They can be revoked by the General Assembly, the League National Assembly, and by the Assembly of the Nine.
| Summit | Elected |
|---|---|
| Winter Solstice 386YE | Bianca Legna di Sarvos |
Recent Elections
This title is currently held by Bianca Legna di Sarvos. This title has tenure, the occupant may hold the title until it is revoked, they die or they relinquish the position. The table to the right shows the citizens who have been elected to hold this title in the years since Empress Britta died.
Open Fan Cicisbeo Academy
The hotel La Scarpetta Dorata was once a beloved fixture of the theatre district, notorious for always being full of actors, musicians, and artists. Now, the old Scarpetta has been transformed by the injection of funds and white granite from The Socialite Network; one of the premier unions for cicisbeo in the League. The basic shape of the building remains the same; its tall and elegant silhouette restored to its former glory. But where before it shone white with cladding over wood, it gleams with freshly carved blocks of white granite, cunningly wrought into sculptures and carvings representing important cicisbeo or scenes from famous romances. In the main courtyard stands a particularly impressive statue of Rosalina Gulia Viola di Sarvos, the cicisbeo Senator of Sarvos who had been a member and patron of the Socialite Network since its inception.
Inside, the rooms on the first two floors have been knocked through and remodelled to create a series of lecture theatres. The rest of the old hotel rooms have been transformed into classrooms, offices for resident lecturers, and private study rooms. On the top floor, what was once the honeymoon suite is now the apartment of the current headmistress. Richly decorated throughout, the Academy retains its former hotel opulence, and several of the Scarpetta suites are preserved as they were, for use in educational contexts.
While the Academy does teach students the traditional arts of the cicisbeo - romance, companionship, sex work, and notetaking - it also covers a wide range of other subjects, ranging from dance classes and writing workshops to private bodyguarding and even an introduction to being a personal physick. As the motto of the Socialite Network goes: “if there’s anything that can make your life more beautiful, a cicisbeo can be hired to provide it.”
The Academy was a collaboration with Red Raven Holdings, a building society incorporated in Caricomare that is dedicated to constructing sinecures that will benefit the Empire and its citizens.