A brief history of the Festa di San Giovanni (Festival of St John) celebrated in Florence on the 24th June each year In The Power of the Wouivre: Fiorenza Guidaloste attends the Festa di San Giovanni. Every year on the 24th June, the Florentines celebrate their patron saint, San Giovanni, or St John the Baptist […]
Medieval clothing worn in Guidaloste’s Fiorenza Florence often has historical processions or fayres that make it easy to imagine how people dressed in the past (I’ll discuss one particular one – the Festa di San Giovanni – in my next blog. However, for the most part, these costumes are from a later medieval/ renaissance period,
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Wool – a booming economy in medieval cloth and clothing In chapter 8 of The Power of the Wouivre: Fiorenza, Guidaloste, the medieval main character, sees the Arno River for the first time as he came down the hill from nearby San Miniato al Monte (you can read/ hear this description in my instagram post
Sleeping and eating habits in daily medieval life Despite the Italians being pioneers for mechanical time keeping, there would have been no clocks, as you know it, in the Fiorenza of Guidaloste’s time (The Power of the Wouivre: Fiorenza). Clocks did exist – sundials, water clocks, candle clocks – but these would have been limited