Margherita Massalin and Filippo Ravano grew up in the hillside neighbourhood of Albaro in Genoa, and knew this early-20th-century house well; when Margherita’s family saw an apartment for sale ...

In early modern Genoa, an important center of commerce ... portraiture and material culture, some of the only means available to them. "For me, the sumptuary law dimension was foundational ...