Flat shoes were worn to around 1610, when a low heel became popular. The ribbon tie over the instep that had appeared on late sixteenth century shoes grew into elaborate lace or ribbon rosettes called shoe roses that were worn by the most fashionable men and women. Backless slippers called pantofles were worn indoors.
By the 1620s, heeled boots became popular for indoor as well as outdoor wear. The boots themselves were usually turned down below the knee; boot tops became wider until the "bucket-top" boot associated with The Three Musketeers appeared in the 1630s. Spurs straps featured decorative butterfly-shaped spur leathers over the instep.
By the 1620s, heeled boots became popular for indoor as well as outdoor wear. The boots themselves were usually turned down below the knee; boot tops became wider until the "bucket-top" boot associated with The Three Musketeers appeared in the 1630s. Spurs straps featured decorative butterfly-shaped spur leathers over the instep.
Paola Adorno, Marchesa Brinole-Sale wears a black gown and a sheer ruff with large, soft figure-of-eight pleats seen in Italian portraits of this period. Her hair is caught in a cylindrical cap or caul of pearls. Genoa, c. 1626. 
Margaret Laton wears a black gown over an embroidered linen jacket tucked into the newly fashionable high-waisted petticoat of c. 1620. She wears a sheer apron or overskirt, a falling ruff, and an embroidered cap with lace trim. The jacket itself is in the longer fashion of the previous decade.
Wears an embroidered jacket-bodice and petticoat under a red velvet gown. She wears a sheer partlet over an embroidered high-necked chemise, c. 1620
Peasant wear.
Old Procuratie-They are constituted by a long building (m.152) that skirts the northern side of St. Mark's Square. They were built in a unique floor during the twelfth century but they suffered some renovations beginning from 1514, up to 1532, the year when Jacopo Sansovino intervened raising an ulterior floor on the original building. Initially it was assigned to offices and residence for St. Mark's attorneys (the attorney was the more important magistrate in the Republic after the Doge), today it is ownership of Assicurazioni Generali, and in the future it will welcome the offices of the municipal administration. Behind the Old Procuraties there is the Orseolo Basin, realized in 1863 for the docking of the gondolas. 
The bridge of the Sighs, architectural work of the late '500, is composed by two corridors superimposed that put in touch the Palace of Justice and the ancient jails with the cells that are beyond the canal of the Building. It's told that it could be heard the sighs of the prisoners when they passed the bridge, because they could not escape
anymore. The Old Jails were the ancient jails of the Doge's Palace, and were divided in Leads, that is cells set under the lead roofs of the Building that housed famous personages like Casanova, Manin, Pellico and Tommaseo, and in Wells, narrow places at the ground floor that were damp and dark reserved to the condemned for the most serious crimes and to the political prisoners.
anymore. The Old Jails were the ancient jails of the Doge's Palace, and were divided in Leads, that is cells set under the lead roofs of the Building that housed famous personages like Casanova, Manin, Pellico and Tommaseo, and in Wells, narrow places at the ground floor that were damp and dark reserved to the condemned for the most serious crimes and to the political prisoners.
Doge Palace-
Through the Door of the Paper, work of Bartholomeo Bon (fifteenth century), characterized by a winged lion to whose presence is knelt the Doge Francesco Foscari, we get in the building crossing the Foscari Arc, in Gothic style that is in front of the Staircase of the Giants with colossal
statues of Mars and Neptune it works of Sansovino (1554); really behind the statues, took place the ceremony of crowning of the doge. Inside, on the Courtyard overlook the façades that propose the same solutions of the external ones; from here we can get to the Staircase of the Censors and the Gold Staircase begun in 1549 from Sansovino and from Scarpagnino and decorated wiyh works of Tiziano Aspetti, Alessandro Vittoria, Giovan Battista Franco and Segala; it was reserved to the Magistrates and important personages passage.
Commedia Dell'arte was a huge form of entertaiment in Italy that consisted of a half improved, half scripted sketch performed by specific stereotyped characters. It was usually performed with masks on and done in the streets.
