hi Mike ... ... I don't know, what you hallucinate ... :-) ... it's ideal in a research situation, that you have to add NOTHING (and that's a very secure result). It's far more troublesome, if you have to reconstruct something to make it "somehow possible". In the case of the Cary Yale it'...

hi Mike, for the socalled "World" in the Cary Yale, it's not "World", it is "Fama" ... the key-element is the "winged trumpet". The winged trumpet also appears at this painting, which is made for a Petrarca edition with its six representations (with Fama natur...

The following both texts are from the thread "Luigi Pulci (and Boiardo) (and Tarot)" written around Christmas 2007 at Aeclectic. http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=90080 If assuming, that the Charles VI was made ca. 1463, one should recognize the context of the situation ... and the co...

Huck: OK, I've read the links you suggested, plus the links on those links! I was looking for material about Milan. I did see one thing that I'm going to have to check further: Ross's statement, if I got it right, that the idea of having "triumph" parades modeled on Petrarch started in Fl...

Thanks for the caution about Vogt-Leurssen. Well, I am intrigued enough to buy her book. It should get here in a couple of weeks. And thanks for the elaboration about the early 1450's. I of course think the cards as a public display are more connected to winning over the nobles to accepting Frances...

hi Mike, for Kleio.org ... the conclusions of the author are by far in any point always compelling or "accepted by everybody". More: the author occasionally changes her attributions (we've observed it more than once). The altered versions are similar "suggestive" as the older ver...

hi Moke, Hi Huck: German card-playing sounds out of my league, but fun. However I don't see the relevance of your discussion of German four-handed card games. I thought tarocchi was a game for two or three people. When Galeazzo wrote home from Ferarra in 1457, he said he was playing tennis and trion...

Thanks for the Till Eulenspiegel and Mackenzie stuff Huck. I hadn't followed it on trionfi.com It's a shame Mackenzie wrote in the 19th century, and had to omit some of the tales because of their bawdy nature. I'm trying to find a complete edition. For all the languages it was translated into, stra...

About the "Ulenspiegel" ... it's not clear, that Murner had been the editor of an already existing lower German basic text, it's only suspected - but with good reason. The printer Grüninger in Strassburg was an early friend of Murner and later they occasionally cooperated. In 1502 the famo...

Yes, we found it quickly too. The relevant portion is here - http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/Gl%27Ingannati It is linked from the portion of Piscina's text here: http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/Piscina_Discorso_2 (notes at the bottom, and linked in the text at the word "Comedy") Ross That's...