Franco, Giacomo. Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane con la processione della ser.ma signoria et altri particolari cioe trionfi, feste et cerimonie publiche della nobilissima citta di Venetia. Giacomo Franco forma in Frezzaria all’insegna del sole, 1610.
“Gran Consiglio” from the “Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane”, published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
About forty engravings from the early 1600s, with dresses, attires, ceremonies, feasts, regattas and much more.
The Venetians played ball games of various kinds. The game of Calcio is the one sounds most modern, but it wasn’t exactly like it’s played today. Far from it, in fact.