actual formation, is more like the Italian head-piece described on page 107 (Fig. 452), and is probably of corresponding date. The late Herr Wendelin Boeheim states that this tournament harness bears the mark of Antonio Missaglia of Milan. It figures in the 1583 inventory of Castle Ambras, and is there erroneously described as having belonged to the Duke of Milan. There is now little doubt that it belonged to Gasparo Fracasso of Milan, the ambassador of Ludovico Moro to the Court of Maximilian I. Before the death of Gasparo Fracasso there is a record in contemporary accounts of its having been purchased by Maximilian in 1502 for the sum of seventy-two gulden, to be placed with his collection of armour in Castle Ambras. The date of the make of the helm on this set might be as early as 1465.
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Fig. 473. Helm, with its apparel
Italian, third quarter of the XVth century. Said to have belonged to Gasparo Fracasso of Milan Imperial Armoury, Vienna
We will now consider a type of helm of Spanish origin, and worn with the Spanish tilting harness; in Spain there was a special joust peculiar to that country. Padilla, in his chronicle, says that the Catholic kings, in order to
