I found some websites and pictures that you could find interesting; the soldiers that are pictured are not specifically Romans most of the time, but I guess their equipment was not very different from that of other Italians. I have not found XIIIth century italian soldiers depictions yet and only a handful of XIVth century ones, I rather found XVth century representations.
Frescoes and tapestries seem to be underestimated sources of informations.
Of course the artistic representations should be manipulated with caution, it is a commonplace that illuminators and painters from the Middle Ages didn't have the preoccupation of representing accurate or realistic scenes, but I guess I do not teach you anything.
This website covers XIVth to XVth centuries with some paintings amongst the most well-known :
http://www.warfare2.netai.net/14/Ita...4thCentury.htm
Scenes from the Massacre of the Innocents fresco in the Sant'Abbondio basilica, Côme (1315-1324) :
Knight of Pratro, XIVth century, Tuscany, probably painted by Pacino di Buonaguida :
https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illumin...id&IllID=42522
Codex Capodilista, equestrian armorial intended for Transelgardi, Forzate and Capodilista families, around 1435; some of the coats of arms are fictional (sorry but I only found a french page mentioning it, many of its illuminations are hosted on gettyimages) :
http://behydezell.com/article/creati...ex-capodilista
Paintings from the church of St Stephan in Obermontani, Morter, Italy, 1400-1410, obviously very close to german-speaking countries :
http://armourinart.com/119/165/
Saint Georges by Andrea Mantegna, around 1460 :
Finally, and even if many of them are already depicted in the mod with few variants, some XVth century italian helmets :
Barbute from the Chalcis venetian garrison, 1350-1420 (they don't say anything about the coat of mail's origin) :
http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1923.1065?f[0]=object_location:Gallery%20210
Sallet from the venetian garrison of Chalcis, mid-XVth century :
Italian sallet, around 1450-1470 :
Italian great bassinet, XVth century (sorry but I did not found a smallest image) :
Italian great bassinet, early XVth century :
Milanese "armet à rondelle", XVth century :
http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916...m=All&page=1&f[0]=object_location:Gallery%20210
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Originally Posted by aljo
up. They found a heap of armour, maybe in big piles (like the Metropolitan Museums of Art in north America). Using their own discretion, they smashed the items together with duct tape and called it a day. There's still a lot of museums which uses these older compromised elements. I'm describing the extreme, so there's a lot of stuff which falls in the middle of "we don't really know all that we wish we'd knew", but the amount of complete medieval armours is less than a dozen. The great majority is made up of museums collectors who have either modified or assembled bits and pieces which has nothing to do with each other. Some are contemporary comp. from different walks of life, others originate from the Victorians period. 
