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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://wandering.shop/users/adapalmer/statuses/113907893070753469">Ada Palmer (adapalmer@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 07:03:43 JST</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer" title="adapalmer@wandering.shop"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/28756-48-20231229054252.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Ada Palmer" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Ada Palmer</a><div><a href="https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/113907893059340166" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>The famous Cosimo had to have servants carry him through his own home, and used to shout every time they neared doorway. When asked, “Why do you shout before we go through a doorway?” He answered “Because if I shout after you slam my head into the stone lintel it doesn’t help.” 3/?</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4467148#notice-8746073">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-29T07:03:43+09:00" title="Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 07:03:43 JST">about 11 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/113907893070753469" rel="external" title="Sent from wandering.shop via ActivityPub">wandering.shop</a></span></span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/113907893070753469">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4039001">Portrait of Cosimo de Medici by Bronzino. Pictured in his 60s, his face is very lined with age (and pain). He wears a round wool red cap and a red wool robe, in the humble Florentine merchant style.</a></label><br><a href="https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/907/892/906/046/132/original/d612920f472bea54.jpeg" rel="external">https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/907/892/906/046/132/original/d612920f472bea54.jpeg</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4039002">Photograph of the interior of a bedroom on the main floor Cosimo inhabited in Palazzo Medici. The "Piano Nobile" or "Noble Floor" meant the first floor above ground in the period, the one the nobles of a household lived on so they could avoid having to go up more than one flight of stairs (the ground floor, vulnerable to flooding and cold was used for storage of barrels and jars and goods, not habitation). In the room you see a large window, a bed and chairs upholstered in pale silvery fabric, several large pieces of dark heavy wooden furniture, whitewashed walls, and a large wooden door with a very, very hard solid stone door frame. Hitting your head on these really, really hurts! I hit my head hard on one in a castle in Wales one time, my head was hurting for days! Stone is hard, people! If you've ever hit your head on a doorframe multiply it by ten!</a></label><br><a href="https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/907/892/874/301/009/original/34e14e91f4a2c21b.jpeg" rel="external">https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/907/892/874/301/009/original/34e14e91f4a2c21b.jpeg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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The famous Cosimo had to have servants carry him through his own home, and used to shout every time they neared doorway. When asked, “Why do you shout before we go through a doorway?” He answered “Because if I shout after you slam my head into the stone lintel it doesn’t help.” 3/?
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1. Portrait of Cosimo de Medici by Bronzino. Pictured in his 60s, his face is very lined with age (and pain). He wears a round wool red cap and a red wool robe, in the humble Florentine merchant style.
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2. Photograph of the interior of a bedroom on the main floor Cosimo inhabited in Palazzo Medici. The "Piano Nobile" or "Noble Floor" meant the first floor above ground in the period, the one the nobles of a household lived on so they could avoid having to go up more than one flight of stairs (the ground floor, vulnerable to flooding and cold was used for storage of barrels and jars and goods, not habitation). In the room you see a large window, a bed and chairs upholstered in pale silvery fabric, several large pieces of dark heavy wooden furniture, whitewashed walls, and a large wooden door with a very, very hard solid stone door frame. Hitting your head on these really, really hurts! I hit my head hard on one in a castle in Wales one time, my head was hurting for days! Stone is hard, people! If you've ever hit your head on a doorframe multiply it by ten!
  https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/907/892/874/301/009/original/34e14e91f4a2c21b.jpeg

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