with long and sharp points. In the next age they began to enlarge the sleeves, and they were so large that each one by itself was bigger than the gown; then they began to raise the garments around the neck, so that in the end they covered the whole head; then they began to bare it in such a way that the cloths could no longer be held up by the shoulders, because they did not rest upon them; then they began to lengthen the garments so much that men continually had their arms laden with cloth so as not to tread on it with their feet; then they came to such an extreme that they clothed themselves only down to the flanks and to the elbows, and the garments were so tight that men suffered great torment from them, and many split apart underneath; and their feet were so tightly shod that the toes overlapped one another and became loaded with corns.

[542] a. Of the eye that sees the folds of cloth surrounding a man.

The shadows set between the folds of the cloths that surround human bodies will be the darker the more they, together with the concavities where such shadows are generated, lie directly opposite the eye. And this I mean to have said for when the eye is situated between the shadowed and the luminous part of the aforesaid figure.

[543] Of the folds of cloth.

The folds of cloth, set in whatever action of the figures, must always by their lineaments show the action of that figure, in such a way that they give no ambiguity or confusion of the true attitude to whoever considers them, and