Firenzuola, The two discourses, Delle bellezze delle donne and Della perfetta bellezza d'una donna, in ed. Bianchi, Le Opere (Firenze, 1848).
Morpurgo, El costume de le donne con un capitolo de le XXXIII. bellezze (Firenze, 1889).
Zanelli, in Bolletino di St. Pistoiese, vol. I., fasc. II., p. 50 et seq.
Aretino, Il Mareschaio, atto ii., sc. 5, and I Ragionamenti.
Cennino Cennini, Trattato della Pittura, cap. clxi. Warning against the general use of cosmetics.
L.B. Alberti, Opere Volgari (Firenze, 1849) (Del Governo della Famiglia), vol. V., pp. 52, 75, 77. How a wife ought and ought not to adorn herself.
Franco Sacchetti, Novelle, 99, 136, 137, 177. "Formerly the women wore their bodices cut so open that they were uncovered to beneath their armpits! Then with one jump, they wore their collars up to their ears! And these are all outrageous fashions. I, the writer, could recite as many more of the customs and fashions which have changed in my days as would fill a book as large as this whole volume," etc. etc., with a long description of the dress of the women of his time. Consult all the novelists.
Dante, in Il Paradiso, XV.
Gio. Villani, Cronaca, lib. X., caps. x., xi., and cl.
Matt. Villani, Cronaca, lib. I., cap. iv.