Pyramid of Vanites (Real)

The great pile of gauds and vanities brought together for the bonfire of Vanities in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence. "There were tapestries and brocades of immodest design, pictures and sculptures held too likely to incite to vice; there were boards and tables for all sorts of games, playing-cards along with the blocks for printing them, dice, and other apparatus for gambling ; there were worldly music-books, and musical instruments in all the pretty varieties of lute, drum, cymbal, and trumpet ; there were masks and masquerading-dresses used in the old carnival shows; there were handsome copies of Ovid, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Polci, and other books of a vain or impure sort; there were all the implements of feminine vanity."

<em>Romola</em>

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