Sansovino, Venetia città nobilissima e singolare (1663), fol. 150 et seq.
Yriarte, La vie d'un Patricien de Venise au 16me siècle (Les femmes à Venise) (Paris, 1874), and see rare authorities there quoted. In Venice, the prescribed bridal dress seems to have been that of Titian's Flora—the hair fell free on the shoulders. The Proveditori alle Pompe were established in Venice in 1514.
On the whole subject see, for earlier time, Heywood, The Ensamples of Fra Filippo (Siena, 1901), cap. iii.; and for later time, Burckhardt, op. cit., vol. II., part V., caps., ii., iv., v., vii.
[*51] She died in 1528, not as Serassi, whom Dennistoun follows, says, in 1530.
[52] Her maiden surname, Pio, was habitually punned into Pia.
[*53] Cf. Il Cortegiano, lib. I., cap. vi.
[54] Dolce, in the Instituto delle Donne, mentions a lady who, being asked to name some pastime at a party, sent for a basin and towel, that all of her sex might wash their faces, she being the only one present without paint.
[55] Sanuto strangely ascribes his death to mal Francese, an example of the way in which that ill-understood scourge was then assumed as the origin of many fatal maladies.
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"Una stagion fu già, che sì il terreno Arse, che 'l sol di nuovo a Faetonte De' suoi corsier parea aver dato il freno: Secco ogni pozzo, secco era ogni fonte, Gli stagni, i rivi, e i fiumi più famosi, Tutti passar si potean senza ponte." Ariosto, Satira iii. |