Venice: its history, art, industries and modern life; (1896)
Yriarte, Charles [Émile], 1832-1898. [from old catalog], Sitwell, F. J., [from old catalog] tr · Philadelphia, H. T. Coates & co · leaf 452
lawj and in this way commerce lostnothing. One might possess a million pearls, butthey could only be worn on those special and festaldays. Here is the text of a decree made in 1574, onthe occasion of the entrance of Henry HI. intoVenice: ^^All contrary decrees notwithstanding,it shall be permitted… … LACE. 355 What the result of such a permission would be,it is not very difficult for us to imagine. Thepassion of the patrician ladies for dress, as thoughexasperated by the prohibition of the provveditori,knew no bounds on these festal days. The conse-quences were astounding; we know their…
Art, Italian
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