"De remediis utriusque fortunae" https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Liber:Petrarca_-_De_remediis_utriusque_fortunae.djvu ... Kaplan's argument isn't valid, as the text also doesn't note the game of chess (a game, which isn't a game of luck, but a game of skill; the text is especially about fortune, not ...

A figure called "Imperia" was installed in Constance in 1993 ... https://www.deutschland-lese.de/media_deutschland_lese/imperia_0922.jpg https://www.deutschland-lese.de/index.php?article_id=1075 It reminds the council of Constance (1414-1418) and the many prostitutes, which spend some time in the ci...

The easiest explanation for the manuscript would be, that Marcello ordered in 1449 a second copy in Venice (the Renee copy was made in Venice, did you get this info?), one, which he did send to Alfonso in Naples. I remember, that he was interested in a personal contact in the same year 1449, similar...

Interesting. Is this the Monasteri San Giovanni Terestis? https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Theristis https://www.google.de/maps/place/Monastero+ortodosso+di+San+Giovanni+Theristis/@38.4950433,16.4686588,877m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x13154a05fc7683a3:0x86e4b69900640f10!8m2!3d38.4950433!4d16.47...

Ross,
Capialbi is new to me and also to the Forum, if one can trust the search engine. Is this a copy of the text of Martiano da Tortona?

I went through the first 10 posts ... Ross wrote: Although we cannot answer Ludophone's questions directly from Marziano, we can gather some of the standard features of card games played contemporaneously to Marziano's text in Milan, from a ducal decree of February 24, 1420 which prohibits "card gam...

Back to the potential German catalyst for the Marziano creation - I'm still struck by these facts: * For the time period in question it seems Italian playing cards were uniformly swords/batons/cups/coins but Marziano chose all birds and there is a near contemporary German deck featuring all birds (...

I mostly wanted to know where these Viéville labels came from, which you have now told me. From the original Vieville deck. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10510963k.r=vieville%20jeu%20des%20cartes?rk=21459;2 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10510963k/f73.highres https://gallica.bnf.fr...

Manilius organized in pairs of opposition: Minerva-Aries ... Vulcanus-Libra Venus-Taurus ... Mars-Scorpio Apollo-Gemini ... Diana-Sagittarius Mercury-Cancer ... Vesta-Capricorn Jupiter-Leo ... Juno-Aquarius Ceres-Virgo ... Neptun-Pisces If Leo is the place of Jupiter, then Juno must have been the pl...

Still nothing that explains the Sun-Gemini, Moon-Cancer, Star-Aquarius triplet. Appollo, Gemini with Diana-Artemis, rules Gemini in the Manilius-astrology (used in Palazza Schifanoia, Ferrara, started 1469). Moon-Cancer is a common astrology connection, Moon rules Cancer. In the Manilius-astrology ...