Pellegrino, Angelina

A notable 19th-century hydromage: born in Catanzaro (Calabria), Italy, later relocated to southern France. Served as Planetary wizard for Earth, 1866-1880.

There is surprisingly little detail about Pellegrino's personal life in the Manual: she appears to have taken her privacy very seriously. It is known that she was the second daughter of a local fisherman of Catanzaro. Anecdotal information about her Ordeal exists, indicating her early aptitude with water. During her Ordeal, the Lone Power is said to have attempted to drown Angelina while she was swimming off the Calabrian coast. In reaction to the attack, Pellegrino apparently went into synch with the element of water for many miles up and down the coast, an epic manifestation of the exploit known as Taking In The Sea -- so thoroughly disrupting the Lone One's attack that any time it appeared to a wizard for some months afterwards, It turned up dripping wet.

Pellegrino is best known for the design (and singlehanded premiere performance) of the massive wizardry now known as the Gibraltar Passthrough Intervention, which it is said took nearly six years of her life to engineer and implement. The Passthrough has been redesigned several times in the past two centuries to reflect changes in the Gulf Stream and issues related to climate change. (AWOM)

(see also: Famous Wizards, Sol III / Earth)