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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XII FASHIONS, COSTUME, AND HEAD-DRESS- SUMPTUARY LAWS THAT prolific compiler of books, Francesco San- sovino, who is not above the suspicion of plagiary, wrote a dialogue in which Trifone Gabriele instructs a young Venetian gentleman in the art of living, how he should direct his studies, and how best he can avoid the evil and cleave to the good; and among other excellent pieces of advice Trifone urges his pupil to keep '' la casa di mediocri ornamenti addobbata, piii tosto commoda habitatione che piena di morbidezze, e il corpo vestito di buoni habiti piu presto gravi che pomposi. l But this sound advice perished still-born betwixt the leaves of Sansovino's pamphlet; art applied to industry brightened every corner of the house, and great were the opportunities for display afforded by the incessant changes of fashion Che l'uso de' mortali e come fronda In railin, che son va. ed altra viene. Omitting the ancients, no nation ever showed itself so insatiable in the matter of fashions as the Venetians at the epoch of their greatest splendour2; France alone, and then only in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, could rival Venice, who had already so long preceded her in multiform and varying refinements of luxury. i Sansovino, Diatogo del Gfmtilhuomo vinitiano, p. 5. Venetia, i566. The Dialogue is merely a reproduction of a letter on the duties of a gentleman written by Bernardino Tomitano. See Morelli, J., / Codici volgari della Libreria Marciana, p. i33. Venezia, i776. In addition to the paintings of the sixteenth century we have valuable evidence on the subject in the works of Ferdinamlo Bertelli (Omnium fere gentium nostrae aetatis habitas. Ven. i56g); of Hans Weigel with Amman's woodcuts (Habitus praecipuorum poputorum, Norimberga, i577); of Jean...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217650878 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217650872 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $20.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 244 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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