I visited the amazing Villa Borghese up north in Rome's city center on Sunday. The park surrounding the villa is gorgeous, and also lots of fun: there is an Elizabethian Globe theatre there (of course built in recent time...), there is a lake where you can rent rowing boats, and there also is big carlike tandem bikes for rent (tourists and locals ( Read more... )

Anyone have colour versions and/or bigger versions of these? They're all from the book "Abbigliamento e costume nella pittura italiana": Rinascimento", by Carlo Bestetti (1962).



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