Young Italian woman, 14th century. She wears a large turban and her hair tied with white laces, a gold simar with tight bodice and full skirts and sleeves trimmed with ermine, pointed red shoes. From a painting by Francesco Vanni of Siena. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from "Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries," Levy Fils, Paris, 1860.