A lovely Italian phrase that translates as " A small cask makes good wine" is an Italian compliment to a short person. I reply by stretching to my 5' 1" height, Grazie! (Art: Philippe Mercier 1689 — 1760)
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I have been reading Thomas V. Cohen's Love and Death in Renaissance Italy, a fascinating study of crime reports, for the information they reveal about life and language in the 16th century (the setting of my WIP). Detailed handwritten depositions of criminal cases recorded the testimonies of everyone from the kitchen boy, the serving girls,
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