Show A WEDDING RECEPTIO 1471 The number of guests between relations I rela-tions prelates and ambassadors was so great that the duke of Parrara was obliged in order to provide them with I lodgings to billet them on private I families to whom he sent the necessary neces-sary tapestries silken covers and Flanders sheets but the mattresses and bolsters they were obliged to hire from the Jews who kept a bank In Farrara and they often had to be contented con-tented with old goods As long as the I stranger nobles remained in Farrara the court sent them all they required for dinner and supper and not only this but also enough to give over to the poor or anybody they chose For example to the cardinal of Roverella who had a suite of thirty people were sent every morning 300 pounds of meat and the rest in proportion The great dinner of all was given on the 4th of July the day after the arrival ar-rIval of the bride Among the many dishes that appeared there were served at one course ou large square silver trays eighty gilt peacocks with fire Issuing from their mouths As for the cooks only at the Villa of Bel l flore where the bride remained a few j I hours before coming into the city there were thirtysix In the court kitchen the cooks of the Duke Am I brosio of Prussia and Gerardo of i Arezza had fortytwo cooks under I them besides a Lorenzo who cooked only sturgeons Mastro Bernardino who gilt the peacocks and Mastro Martino who provided the Iron frames to hold them up A company comes from Venice in order to make all kinds of sweetmeats The Westminster Review Re-view |