Well, one shouldn't forget, that we have with the Bentivoglio the ascend of a family, which after its ascend had enough time to tell and spread their variant of the story. Storiadimilano reports this marriage of May 1441 NOT. This Storia di Milano or another? - http://www.storiadimilano.it/Personag...

I forgot to add that a dynastic wedding gives a great chance for women and children to be present in large numbers (Murari notes Milanese ladies, which Ghirardacci does not), which is not the same as the normal, and constant, diplomatic and commercial visits which account for the greatest amount of ...

Two sources for the Bentivoglio-Visconti wedding of May, 1441. Their value for my scenario is that if Tarot had been just invented a year or so before in Bologna, and was played by the educated classes, then this is a perfect time for both Ferrarese and Milanese upper-classes to have become acquaint...

Hi Marco, I looked at the Google map earlier, and couldn't relate it in any way to the cliff on the Borgognone altarcloth, let alone the topography of the two triumphs. The nearest thing to a cliff (with retaining wall) is in this photograph: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7212384 It's a tease... :...

I would say that the Certosa of Pavia is in one of the flattest places in the world :) http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=it&geocode=&q=pavia+certosa&sll=41.442726,12.392578&sspn=17.575222,46.538086&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Certosa+di+Pavia+Pavia,+Lombardia&am...

Note that the presence of an apparent Popess in the Bolognese Star card does not imply some kind of subversive insertion after the prohibition of 1725 of all four of the Papi (changing them into Mori ) - since these two figures are in the same Alla Torre pack as the first b/w image above, from well ...

Huck wrote:There is a download button, right upper corner, at each "side with single picture".

Ah, okay. It only gives "low" as a choice - is this the best there is?

Amazing Huck, beautiful! What a treasure to have them all. Since you know how to retrieve these images, could you get them all and post them? I also wonder if you could get the largest size of this image for me - http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/detail/ODLodl~14~14~83261~137956:Petr...

I think the figure on the left is actually a Popess in the Bologna tradition since the 17th century. Here are various versions of the Star in the Bolognese trumps, in chronological order (with maker) - Alle Torre , 17th century; Al Leone , 18th century; Al'Angelo , 1st quarter 19th century; Alla For...

Thank you Ross! (*) You're welcome. I note that the text that Thierry sent (quoted above) me contains a line that d'Allemagne excluded (indicated by the "...") "Permettons néanmoins aux maîtres cartiers d'imprimer chez eux les cartes appelées tarots, ainsi qu'ils ont fait jusqu'à pré...