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ITALY. 35 The Cavaliere Antonio Merli, in his interesting pamphlet on tahan lace, 4 mentions an account preserved in the municipal archives of Ferrara, dated 1469, as probably referring to lace ; 5 at he more especially brings forward a document of the Sforza aniily, dated 1493, 6 in which the word “ trina ” ! (under its ancient form, “ tarnete ”) constantly occurs, together with bone and bobbin lace. Again, the Florentine poet, Firenzuola, who wrote from 1520 to 1530, composed an elegy upon a collar of raised point, made by the hand of his mistress. See “ Florence.” Cavaliere Merli cites, as the earliest-known painting in which lace occurs, a maiolica disc, after the style of the Della Robbia family, m which, surrounded by a wreath of fruit, is represented he half-figure of a lady, dressed in a rich brocade, with a collar T W iJ* 1 '?.' r ^ iC cos * vume 4S °1 the fifteenth century; but as mZL d ? ‘* bia ’ s desce » d ants worked to a later period, the piecise date of the work cannot be fixed. the nicwTVr WMte . la ? e ’ ” P assein ent, are said to appear in ^ galle17 at Veni0e ’ and in -°ther by Gentile Bellini, where the dress of one of the ladies is trimmed Wlth " WMte kCe - The date 0f this last painting is loOO. We have not seen them. Lace was made throughout Italy mostly by the nuns, and ex- 4 “Origine ed Uso dell Trine a filo di refe” (thread). 1864. Privately printed. J . I *69. lo, Battista de Nicollo, Andrea da Ferrara, debio avere per mia wanifatura et reve per cuxere et candelle per inzirare ... It. per desgramitare e renlare e inzirare e ripezare e reapioare le gramite a camixi quatordece per li signori calonexi, et per li, mansonarij le qual gramite staxea malissimamente, p. che aluune persone le a guaste. Lire 110. It. per reve et p. candelle. L. 0 5.” “ if 69 '—b Baptist de Nicollo, of Andrea a Ferrara, have owing to me for my ma mg, and thread to sew, and candles " W . ' ’ • Hem, for untrimming and rpir.; a ^ lnS i an( * wax * n g an< l repiecingand for n!" S trimmin gs of fourteen albs church r°“ 8 . Md . attcridailt 3 of the verv b’^l i ' V dl trimmings were in a y ad state because some persons had spoiled them. L. I 10. It. for thread and wax. I,. 0 5.” These trimmings (gramite), Cav. Merli thinks, were probably “ trine.” 6 See ” Milan.” Tuna, like our word lace, is used m a general sense for braid or passement. Floris, in his Dictionary (“ A Worlde of Words,” John Floris, London, 1598), gives:— “ Trine,—cuts, snips, pincke worke on garments; and Trinci,—gardings, fring- ings, lacings, &c., or other ornaments of garments.” “ Merlo,” “ merletto,” are the more modern terms for lace. We find the first as early as the poet Firenzuola. (See “ Florence.”) It does not occur in any pattern book of an older date than the “ Fiori da Kicami,” of Pasini, and the two works of Francesco de’ Franeesehi, all printed in 1591. D 2