On 2017-12-15 5:17 PM, curt seeliger wrote:
> What another galoot brought up -- that this required
> large-scale sourcing, transportation and organization of materials and the
> infrastructure to support it -- I find boggling.

In one respect in particular, namely wood. But they apparently had their 
own forest. Much of Northern italy would have been forested at that 
time, and I believe quite a bit still is. They have a fairly significant 
furniture industry in Italy.

Don

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