Mentioned by Taglienti (1530), and afterwards in the Trionfo (1555), and passim.
Given in Il Monte, circ. 1550, but described by Firenzuola earlier. See Florence.
See Chap. III., notes [104] and [106].
"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.
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.