“There was once a judge in Pisa with more brains than muscle called Messer Riccardo da Chinzica, who may have thought that what worked well with his studies would satisfy a wife too. Being very rich, he was able to devote considerable time and effort to searching for a good-looking young lady to marry, whereas if he had been able to give himself the sort of professional counselling he gave others, good looks and youth were just what he should have run away from.”
Giovanni Boccaccio’s “Decameron”
A Bird's Eye View of Fashion, Food, Travel, Culture, Beverage and Curiosity 