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Re: Visconti marriage & betrothal commemorations

Marco wrote Hello Mike, the teapot is not “adding a few years on both sides of 1444-1447”. Your teapots are here: “We can't yet rule out that the CY or something like it was a betrothal present, before 1435. We especially can't rule out that a CY-type deck had been around for years, and the CY and B...

Re: What's With the Concentration on Florence and Tarot?

A nice thing about the Petrarchan framework is that it doesn't break down when you get to the PMB or any later deck--although the Hermit is a problem, which I will try to address at the end of this post. As SteveM says, associations between virtues and celestials are in the prior literature, but wit...

Re: What's With the Concentration on Florence and Tarot?

Phaaeded: The PMB Pope does not look unjust, to be sure. That would indeed be unwise on Sforza's part.He just looks severe--against evildoers, incompetents, and enemies of the faith, one could say. It's just that of all the Giotto figures, his demeanor most resembles that of Injustice. That would be...

Re: What's With the Concentration on Florence and Tarot?

Now I want to compare my position on the Pope and Popess with Phaeded's. (So far, of the 6 first cards, that's all Phaeded has talked about, except for the Emperor and Empress, which we both agree were there from the start. My explanation for them is that they come from Imperatori. And we know they'...

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