The clothing of the Renaissance world : Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas : Cesare Vecellio's Habiti Antichi et Moderni [essay and translation by] Margaret F. Rosenthal and Ann Rosalind Jones.

Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-48) and index.

Introduction: Vecellio and his world -- The clothing, ancient and modern, of various parts of the world (1590), / Cesare Vecellio : Discourse on ancient and modern clothing -- Book I: The clothing, customs and habits of all Europe : The clothing of ancient and modern Rome ; The clothing of early Venice and the Veneto ; The clothing of modern Venice and the Veneto ; The clothing of Lombardy ; The clothing of Liguria or Genoa ; The clothing of Tuscany ; The clothing of the kingdom of Naples ; The clothing of kingdom of France ; The clothing of Spain ; The clothing of Germany [including Livonia, Silesia, Danzig, Denmark, Sweden, and Bohemia] ; The clothing of Helvetia [including Prussia, the Low Countries, Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Poland, and Russia] ; The clothing of Flanders ; The clothing of England [including Gotland and Livellandia] ; The clothing of Turkey ; The clothing of Greece -- Book II: The clothing, customs and ways of life of Asia and Africa : Discourse on the clothing, ancient and modern, of Africa and Asia ; The clothing of Caramania ; The clothing of Armenia [including Georgia and Persia] ; The clothing of Syria and Damascus [including the East Indies, Ethiopia, Japan, and China] ; The clothing of Africa -- The clothing, ancient and modern, of the whole world (1598) -- From Book XII: The clothing, customs and ways of life of Asia and Africa : the clothing of America.