Trionfi.com got the following mail ... I would like to introduce myself. My name is Martin Jarvis and I have been a collector of playing cards for nearly 30 years. During that time I was a member of both the IPCS and the EPCS. I have recently taken the very difficult decision to sell my collection a...

This picture of a ceiling is interesting (you wrote as explanation: "Florence as cosmography ... city gates, guild symbols, etc." http://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=2070 In the center are 4 elements mixed with 4 others. Then there are 16 elements around it. Then a circle with 21 elem...

Possibly the author of the work, who still has some books left from his adventure.

The book got heavy critics, when it appeared (2010), especially from persons with some understanding of Tarot history. Discussions about it you can find in the material of Aeclectic Tarot, a forum, which was closed two years ago (the texts are still online). "Robert Swyrin" was the author, the name ...

The question wasn't so interesting, he just asked for the text of Petrarca and noted Kaplan, which was answered with the link to the text of Petrarca. The game "Kugeln" might have been something similar to Boccia, Petanque or Kegeln, somehow connected to balls or round objects. It's strange, that it...

I didn't start the thread, I answered somebody. I don't know, where his post has gone to. Suddenly it looks, as if I has started the thread. The earlier post mentioned Kaplan and his statement indirectly. Yes, it was Kaplan I p. 34. The situation in Bohemia (where Kaplan might have been acquainted w...

"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...