The custom of painting wooden palettes to exchange as gifts between artist friends or give to ladies was widespread in the late nineteenth century. Aldi, too, adhered to this fashion, dedicating a portrait on a palette to a young girl who recurs as a subject in drawings and paintings made in 1886, to the point that it was thought she was his romantic interest of that moment. The second palette is dedicated to his friend Galileo Romani, born in Scansano in 1841, and depicts a series of landscapes in Italy, France, and Liechtenstein which may refer to events in Romani’s life.