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According to Thomas Platter, a Swiss gentleman who was in London in 1599, ‘The actors are most expensively and elaborately costumed; for it is the English usage for eminent lords or Knights at their decease to bequeath and leave almost the best of their clothes to their serving men, which it is unseemly for the latter to wear, so that they offer th
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If you're looking for a moral, Boccaccio is rarely your best bet
Well, in truth he was very unlikely to be prosecuted. A few people were: Richard Bett, for example, a tailor from Essex, was convicted in 1565 for the size of his hose; and in the same year Richard Walweyn, who worked as a servant in London, was arrested for wearing ‘a very monstrous and outraygeous great payre of hose’, a charge that closely follo
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In my own diagrams, I’ve marked the beginning of the Renaissance as 1370, but Chris argued it goes back to the 1110s. Maybe the way to think of it is that there were “proto Renaissance figures” emerging for up to 2 centuries before.
... See moreDante Alighieri (1265-1321): Italian poet, writer, and philosopher, best known for his Divine Comedy, which is consid
The matter can only be roughly stated in one way. Dickens did not strictly make a literature; he made a mythology.