[72] In the original Italian: ‘e quello che remano non lo gettar via, perche sera optima per tinger per lauenir perche le meglio che non e la prima’. English translation from Gioanventura Rosetti, The Plictho: Instructions in the Art of the Dyers Which Teaches the Dyeing of Woolen Cloths, Linens, Cottons, and Silk by the Great Art as Well as by the Common by Gioventura Rosetti. Facsimile and Translation of the First Edition of 1548., ed. Sidney M. Edelstein and Hector C. Borghetty (Cambridge and London: M.I.T. Press, 1969), 10 and 99.