On Jan 24, 2009, at 16:36, margaret small wrote:
the connections between the Royal families of the various countries
might be a
clue to the way knowledge of lace making spread from Spain or the Low
Countries to Venice. e.g. was a royal daughter from either area
married off
to a royal in Venice? And therefore took her lace-embellished finery
with
her?
Trouble is, Venice had to be different, always :) It was a Republic.
Its top ruler was a doge. But, while "doge" may translate as "duke",
this was an elective office (no term limits, though. Till death do us
part), not one which could be inherited. So, Venice's sons and
daughters would have had very little value to the royals of the rest of
Europe in buliding alliances through marriage.
The book I'm reading doesn't say much about about the marriages (or
women, for that matter) but, when marriages are mentioned, they always
seem to be within the Venetian community or, at most, within the Veneto
(Venetian posessions on "Terrafirma"). Not to foreigners.
I have not yet, however, reached the "Venice and the Dress of
Foreigners" chapter. There might be something there... :)
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Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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