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(Firenze, 1906).
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(Firenze, 1877).
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THEIR BEAUTY AND ADORNMENT.
In Florence, Siena, and Venice certainly there were regulations of
the fashions; but not in Naples.
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.
BOCCACCIO, _De Casibus virorum illustrium_, lib. I., cap.
xviii. He gives a list of the arts of the toilet of women.
BIAGI, _Due corredi nuziali fiorentini_ (1320-1493). (Per
nozze Corazzini-Benzini, Firenze, 1899.)
CARNESECCHI, _Donne e lusso a Firenze nel secolo XVI._
(Firenze, 1903).
ALLEGRETTO, in _Muratori R.I.S._, XXIII., col. 823.
_Diario Ferrarese_, in _Muratori R.I.S._, XXIV., cols. 297, 320, 376
_et seq._, speaks of the German fashions--"Che pareno buffoni tali
portatori."
GENTILE SERMINI, _Le Novelle_ (Livorno, 1874), Nov. XXI.
MARCHESINI, _Quello si convenga a una donna che abbia
marito_ (Firenze, 1890, per nozze). And _Dialogo della bella creanza
delle donne_ (Milano, 1862), pp. 30, 31.
ON WATERS FOR THE FACE, AND PERFUMES.
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