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Re: Petrarca Trionfi poem motifs in early Trionfi decks

...The Robertet is not a card, it is an image with related verses, done in France sometime after 1476 and before 1500 one of a series of six illustrating the Triumphs of Petrarch, ... Here is the Minchiate card alongside the page in the Robertet https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=3...

Re: Petrarca Trionfi poem motifs in early Trionfi decks

It seems to me that the minchiate angel is offering the viewer a choice - the arrow of death or the crown of dominion. Dominion over what, I am not sure, perhaps themselves, or over the world, no longer subject to death but one of the citizens of heaven. I do not think it is a choice of death or su...

Re: Why the Bishop of Florence had to marry the Abbess of San Pier Maggiore

The most playful of my ponderings is to wonder if the Abbess might have had the nickname "la papessa" sometimes. One analogy for "popular consecration" like this is the nickname "Eight Saints" for the eight officials charged to organize Florence's defense against Grego...

Re: Petrarca Trionfi poem motifs in early Trionfi decks

[1]. Phaeded: I am not clear about which crown you are talking about in the CY, as there are two of them - one in her hand and one above the scene. I am talking about the one in her hand. She seems to be offering it to someone, probably the knight below. I think the crown in the minchiate card is a...

Re: Petrarca Trionfi poem motifs in early Trionfi decks

Robertet makes Eternity female. ... Then there is the crown instead of the usual globe held by the Father or the Son. Crowns are symbols of dominion , Ziegler says. So is the globe that the Father or Son holds in the usual depiction of Eternity. There is no need to stick to a globe if another symbo...

Re: Heraldry in the Trecento Madrigal - Visconti imprese

From elsewhere it looks like Andreotto was Agnese's father, and died in 1429, and her brother Gaspare's running of the family bank starting in 1394 overlapped Giangaleazzo's reign (1385 – 5 September 1395), and went well into Filippo's reign. Were likely connected to the Borromeo in some way as fel...

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