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Re: Heraldry in the Trecento Madrigal - Visconti imprese

Good stuff, Phaeded. As a sometime pedant, I have to point out that I used Carleton's thesis a couple of months ago in regards to supposed phoenix heraldry of Antonio della Scala - Phoenix heraldry of Antonio della Scala? https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2681 ... Speaking of ...

Re: Heraldry in the Trecento Madrigal - Visconti imprese

And possible evidence of the eagle and sun connection noted above as a forgotten Visconti imprese, see the title page of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. it. 131,transcribed by Pier Candido Decembrio’s brother Angelo in 1431 and illuminated by an anonymous illuminator known for his work ...

Heraldry in the Trecento Madrigal - Visconti imprese

I just stumbled onto this 2009 thesis covering a fairly neglected area: Heraldry in the Trecento Madrigal , Sarah M. Carleton (Toronto), https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/19260/15/Carleton_Sarah_M_200911_PhD_thesis.pdf The significance includes early French and Imperial influence on ...

Re: Antonio Beccadelli (Panormita) Triumph of King Alfonso 1443

Newbigin's generous, and profoundly informed, translations are the kind of thing the non-Italian Tarot history world has needed for awhile. I'd highly recommend you also dive into Newbigin's translation of the way too long (5,155 lines!) Anonymous [Belcari?] description in terza rima of the The Flo...

Re: Antonio Beccadelli (Panormita) Triumph of King Alfonso 1443

The palio is carried on a triumphal car with four wheels, decorated by four lions, carved so that they seem to be alive, one on each corner of the cart, drawn by two caparisoned horses, with the sign of their Commune, and two boys who ride them and steer them. And it is a very big, rich palio, of f...

Re: Antonio Beccadelli (Panormita) Triumph of King Alfonso 1443

Phaeded wrote: All we can say for certain is the court cards were expanded, not the trumps (with the PMB representing a modification/expansion of the ur-tarot, IMO). I provided an explanation multiple times for the CY court cards, but in short: the Florentine love trump in the ur-tarot must have ma...

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