Mentioned by Taglienti (1530), and afterwards in the Trionfo (1555), and passim.

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Given in Il Monte, circ. 1550, but described by Firenzuola earlier. See Florence.

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See Chap. III., notes [104] and [106].

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"Toile de la Pale."—A pasteboard about eight inches square, enclosed in cambric or lace, used to cover the paten when laid over the cup.

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The whole furniture of a room taken from a palace at Naples, comprising curtains, and vallance of a bed, window curtains, toilet, etc., of straw-coloured laces, reticella, embroidered netting, etc.; the price asked was 18,000 francs = £720. There was also much of the rose point, and a handkerchief bordered with beautiful flat Venetian point of the same colour, forming part of a trousseau. 700 francs = £28.

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