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As an aid to my poor brain that these days is more like a steel sieve than a steel trap:

Italian Majolica pottery- pretty! I want to make some of these some day!
http://venetiancat.com/Price-List_ItalianRen.html

A really nice collection of "Italian Ren" resource links. I've already picked out some a couple of times to get people started who don't yet want to invest in books until they've tried a few styles first: http://www.quite-contrary.org/cost_link_ital.php
Includes Drea's fantastic online reference to the Milanise Tailor's handbook:
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/Tailors/index.html

Pepperbeast is translating her way through Book V of Scappi's Opera- the menus for each day of the year!!! Total Squee_ http://libroquarto.wordpress.com/