Further reflection:. Legati says "il Papa" because he's just reiterating Vannozzi, who said "il Papa". For Vannozzi, there's the question, why is he only offended by the Papa giving the blessing, and isn't further offended by the presence of a second figure wearing papal vestments and crown? He sure...

We discussed the same text here in 2013, the "Museo Cospiano" thread - viewtopic.php?t=958 Marco translates the passage in question. The author, Legati, cites a 1613 text by Bonifacio Vannozzi, which I quote in the thread (post 7). I do not take Legati or Vannozzi as positive evidence that there wa...

Thanks for the link to the 2013 discussion, Ross. As usual, I had forgotten to see if anything had been posted on the subject on THF. Looking at it, I do remember it now. Your comments, and the quite well documented thread, will take me a little time to digest. Alain wrote, Andrea also reminds me th...

Yes, I can get it easily. According to the online catalog, it's at a library where I have borrowing privileges, around 45 minutes from me. I don't get there often, but I happen to have an errand to do near there tomorrow. I don't doubt that it has much specific, detailed information about both him a...

Andrea has made some important additions to his essay "The Prince", which of course is about the origination of the tarot in Bologna by Prince Fibbia, now translated at http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=107&lng=ENG. One is a quote from Dummett's Il Mondo e l'Angelo to the effect that even though th...

I can say more about the connection between Lazzarelli and Champier. According to Hanegraaff, the intermediary between the two was probably Giovan "Mercurio" Correggio, the self-styled "son of God" whom Lazzarelli first encountered in 1481 Rome. In 1482 Lazzarelli gave him his translations of Tracta...

Good point, about the rarity.

Where I read about the connection was in Hanegraaff's book about Lazzarelli, which seems to have some additional information. I currently have only snippets, e.g. : https://books.google.com/books?id=hss-nwEACAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Champier and some more for d'Etaples. The book itself is in a...

Very interesting, about d'Etaples and Boissière. As I recall from somewhere, D'Etaples has a connection to Italy via Lazzarelli, not mentioned by Wikipedia.

Glancing through Bossiiere, I cannot see how it could possibly relate to the tarot sequence, but perhaps you will find something.

I edited the above post a few hours after initial posting to add, before the translation, the information about the source of the image, namely, the work by Henry Plane. On the left side of the image are two selections from the work in clearly pre-modern type. Of these Plane says: (p. 5) Nous reprod...