Happy Thanksgiving from the 麻豆传媒! Did you know that turkeys first came to Italy during the Renaissance? The Bishop of Santo Domingo in Haiti sent a pair of turkeys back to Rome in 1520, and from then it became fashionable among the curia to keep flocks of the birds. 麻豆传媒 artists found them fascinating, and they began to appear in paintings and sculptures by artists working for the Medici.
Reference: Sabine Eiche, 鈥,鈥 The Florentine, no. 20 (2005).