• Villani, Cronica , VI 69, as quoted in note 1595 :⁠— “The women used unornamented buskins, and even the most distinguished were content with a close gown of scarlet serge or camlet, confined by a leathern waistbelt of the ancient fashion, and a hooded cloak lined with miniver; and the poorer classes wore a coarse green cloth dress of the same form.” ↩
• Dante, Convito , I 10:⁠— “Like the beauty of a woman, when the ornaments of her apparel cause more admiration than she herself.” ↩
• Eastern effeminacy in general; what Boccaccio calls the morbidezze d’ Egitto . Paul Orosius, “the advocate of the Christian centuries,” as quoted by the Ottimo , says:⁠— “The last king of Syria was Sardanapalus, a man more corrupt than a woman, ( corrotto piu che femmina? ) who was seen by his prefect Arabetes, among a herd of courtesans, clad in female attire.” ↩