The corazzinas in-game are actually quite unhistorical. And pretty unusable too, had they been real.
Narf based them off the infamous Met armor, owned by Basford Dean (met stands for Metropolian Museum of Art).
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First off, the straps. Corrazinas did not have straps at the front. They were knightly armors, and knights had servants. Which is why they were designed with the straps at the back, so that an opponent would not be able to cut them off in battle and expose your oh so sexy chest.
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Another thing you may have noticed, which is what makes the armor really unusable, are the plates
under the waistline. Cheastplates always taper at the natural waist, and everything under that needs to be flexible. Something achieved with having segmented lames. You can see it better on a later 15th century breastplate:
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Anyhow you can see that everything beneath the waist is segmented, to allow it collapsing when moving and not restricting your legs. The Met armor? Nope, all it has is one
solid skirt (well almost completely solid, solid enough). Good luck moving in that.
If we take a look at one of the corrazinas in-game, you can see that they're 90% modeled off the Met armor.
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