Printing itself ceased for a time at Brescia; at Florence publishers for many years relied chiefly on their old stock of cuts; at Milan, at Ferrara and Pavia a little new work was done.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Brescia and Padua, in the valley of the Po, were especially noted for frugality and severity.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
And the simple feasts which the clothworkers of Brescia, or the boatmen of Ostia or Lyons, observed to do honour to some departed patron, will be celebrated, often in riotous fashion, over the Christian dead in the days of S. Augustine and S. Paulinus of Nola.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill