Humility in the face of staircases

[aesthetistician]

Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons by Roberta Gellis is an unusually sympathatic take on that lady. It has what I like in historical fiction, which is lots of little details about life as it was lived. But there's one section where Lucrezia, her husband and several ladies are walking to dinner. Their route takes them down a staircase, and

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[hlwoods]

Remember the outfits she was expected to wear at the time ... :)

It's much harder to walk down the stairs when you can't see the steps. or bend at the waist. And you're wearing silk slippers that ... well ... slip. A lot. Especially on marble. :)