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Oct 18, 2022 Book of the Week — Habiti Antichi et Moderni di Tutto il Mondo

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"To dress was to be invested with a public identity, according to a system of fixed codes. In a largely pre-literate society, people learned to read the value of textiles and the meaning of their cut as signs of profession, wealth, social status, and geographical...

May 02, 2016 Book of the week – Preghiera alla vergine…

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Preghiera alla Vergine… Modena: Il Bulino edizioni d’arte, 2007 Facsimile. This illuminated manuscript belonged a young woman of the Veronese aristocracy. Produced on vellum in the second half of the thirteenth century, it is illustrated throughout with miniatures and consists of forty-two folios, or eighty-four pages. The...