Since writing the above, two new pieces of information have arrived. One is my Minchiate Francesi deck, c. 1730 (reprint of 1985). Its "Renomme", card , #24, shows a male angel, looking like an 11 year old boy, flying, blowing one horn, and holding something else with his left off to the s...

Thanks very much for the images and links, Marco. Perhaps you could give us the source for the quote about "appeasement of sexual needs" that you gave; I could not find it in Yocum's "Architecture and the Bee". Reading in "Architecture and the Bee" about the House of Vi...

A year ago Girolamo Zorli posted on TreTre a short essay about the games mentioned in Aretino's 1543 Carte Parlenti , giving numerous page references (http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del-tre/documenti-e-saggi/le-carte-parlanti-i-giochi-di-pietro-aretino/, also available in Google Translate). Unf...

Well, I read it a couple of times, the article with the three operations. I didn't understand the third operation, how the examples exemplify the operation you describe. Perhaps you could go through the opration step by step with an example.

Yes, good food for thought, Huck. I'd been been reading about the binary implications elsewhere. Since these issues quickly go beyond the narrow focus of this thread, I started a new one, at viewtopic.php?f=12&t=880#p12820.

This thread is a continuation Huck's post at http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=873#p12778, into more general reflections that don't quite fit the narrow focus of that thread-title. It is also an attempt to resume, on a more general level, a very interesting discussion from the &...

I fine an interesting parallel between Palingenio and Folengo. Alan Soons, "Celebration of the rustic virtues in the work of Teofilo Folengo", Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1:1 (1971), p. 119: Folengo's derisive mythologizing actually conceals an intense approval of the North...

Back on p. 1 Lorredan wrote In 1437 Niccolo Niccoli's will was carried out and his manuscripts/books(library) went to The Center of Art,Music and Illumination that was the Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence. The General of that Monastery at that time was Saint Ambrose Traversari also ...

Well, it's boring as literature, to be sure, nothing like Triperuno. But if you skim it to compare its structure, as a "hero's journey" narrative, to that of the tarot, it is less boring. It's just that nobody divided it up into 22 unequal pieces for you. Good job tracking down all those G...

Huck wrote I look for other "Oromasis" appearances and find some (9). I've to look for them ... ... but I got also the suspicion, that Oromasis might be just a writing form for Ourobourus. You might also try the spelling "Oromazes", in Plutarch's Isis and Osiris (sections XLVI-XL...