The clothing of the Renaissance world
Subtitle: Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas : Cesare Vecellio's Habiti Antichi et Moderni
By: [essay and translation by] Margaret F. Rosenthal and Ann Rosalind Jones.
Contributors: Rosenthal, Margaret F.; Jones, Ann Rosalind.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780500514269
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- Early works to 1800; Clothing and dress -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500; Clothing and dress -- History -- To 500; Renaissance -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Cesare Vecellio's Habiti Antichi et Moderni
Work titles: Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-48) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Vecellio and his world; title: The clothing, ancient and modern, of various parts of the world (1590), / Cesare Vecellio : Discourse on ancient and modern clothing; title: Book I: The clothing, customs and habits of all Europe : The clothing of ancient and modern Rome ; The clothing of early Venice and the Veneto ; The clothing of modern Venice and the Veneto ; The clothing of Lombardy ; The clothing of Liguria or Genoa ; The clothing of Tuscany ; The clothing of the kingdom of Naples ; The clothing of kingdom of France ; The clothing of Spain ; The clothing of Germany [including Livonia, Silesia, Danzig, Denmark, Sweden, and Bohemia] ; The clothing of Helvetia [including Prussia, the Low Countries, Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Poland, and Russia] ; The clothing of Flanders ; The clothing of England [including Gotland and Livellandia] ; The clothing of Turkey ; The clothing of Greece; title: Book II: The clothing, customs and ways of life of Asia and Africa : Discourse on the clothing, ancient and modern, of Africa and Asia ; The clothing of Caramania ; The clothing of Armenia [including Georgia and Persia] ; The clothing of Syria and Damascus [including the East Indies, Ethiopia, Japan, and China] ; The clothing of Africa; title: The clothing, ancient and modern, of the whole world (1598); title: From Book XII The clothing, customs and ways of life of Asia and Africa : the clothing of America.