Thanks to Ross, who gave the information, that the long searched Ugo-Trotti-text is now online http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/10628817?n=9&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=.25 With very limited Latin abilities I attempted to answer the question, what this text (which has a considerable length) mig...

Thank you Huck! "Murad" seems to fit very well with the letters I think I see on the card :) I don't know how likely it is too see a contemporary character in this kind of allegory. My superficial impression is that an ancient (Mahomed) or mythical (Ninus) character would be more typical....

Thanks for the translation, Huck. And yes, I meant Charles of Burgundy, not Charles V. If cliffs are a Sforza device, then that explains why it's there on the cards. But I'm not sure I know how to tell when something is a heraldic device, or that I trust everything I read. For example, everyone say...

Most of our early entries about Trionfi cards are from Ferrara and from the reign of Borso ... thanks to the surviving Ferrarese account books and thanks to the interest of art history, which cared to research matters of art in the books with great interest. A comparable research we have in Italy on...

Well... Granted that triumph cards are "pious objects," and that Borso was interested in representing himself as Justice, I still don't see why he should have suggested a cliff to Lorenzo, to be included in the cards he allegedly was haing made for Ippolita's wedding. There was no cliff o...

You're right - I haven't read about it in the French news either. I don't read very deeply in the news, however. But what is the protest about? Mainly about the matter called "Bologna process" ... curious accident, if you think about it ... :-). Austrian students fear it, Germans already ...

For the current student protests in Vienna we've changed the title page of Trionfi.com http://trionfi.com/ ... .-) ... it has its funny moments. btw. ... as it probably hadn't reached the English News, the student protests started about 10 days ago in the Academy of Art, went then to the central uni...

Well .. you need to make a personal evaluation, how much Trionfi decks were ever made at which time. I prefer to chose a smaller number than Ross does,although we both know more or less the same documents. The first document from Ferrara (which names Trionfi cards) in February 1442 is a production o...

What about ... Osmanic rulers: Murad II (ruled 1421–1444) (1446 - 1451) Mehmed II (ruled 1444–1446) You had read an ".. ura .." ???? This fits with Murad. This would be a nice guarantee, that the Cary-Yale was made "before 1444". As already mentioned somewhere, Francesco Sforza w...

hi, probably the 5x16-idea as explanation for the Cary Yale fragment wouldn't exist, if not the plausibility has developed before that the PBM should be regarded as a 5x14 deck. And this was based on the observation, that two different artists painted the 20 trumps. The Michelino wouldn't have been ...