Thanks for the suggestion on "Zolio", Lorredan. When I saw that word "miser", I thought, he can't mean "miser"; that's "avaro"; it must be an early form of "misero", i.e. "wretched". And so would Bartolomeo have been writing after 1449, whe...

I, too, find the images in the work done for Bruzio Visconti of most interest, as opposed to the text. I have been slowly translating the relevant portions of the 1904 commentary written by Leone Dorez about the codices. That seems to be the source of most of the information available. In this post ...

By all means, go ahead. It's going to take me a little while to read Dorez's Italian anyway, and by then hopefully my image processing software will be fixed, so I can post some good images of the more interesting illuminations--and not just ones in that book, but others Bartolomeo did for Bruzio. M...

Yes, I meant 1354-1355, as I had already said in an earlier post. I'm so used to writing about the 15th century! And yes, Huck, that is indeed the page, in color. on those posters. I didn't link to any of them because I couldn't find one with good enough resolution to read the lettering. I didn't un...

Yes, that's the book. The "Song" is the poetry that goes with the pictures, which Dorez transcribed. It's dedicated to Bruzio Visconti, who apparently was in Bologna 1454-1455 (added later: I meant 1354-1355, as I said in an earlier post). It's unfortunate if people can't see it online out...

I have taken some photos of two pages, 126 and 127, of the c. 1355 Bologna Ms. (now at Chantilly) that I have been talking about, as reproduced in Canzone delle Virtu e Delle Scienze di Bartolomeo di Bartoli da Bologna: Texto Inedito del Seolo XIV Tratto dal Ms. Originale dei Museo Condé ed illustra...

Thanks for telling me. I will work on getting an image of the page. Fortunately, I happen to have the hard copy on hand from Interlibrary Loan. Meanwhile, here is the part from Michael I am building on (http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=71&p=1820&hilit=winged+temperance#...

Another famous bridle representing Temperance is Correggio's Allegory of Virtue, Mantua c. 1528-1530, http://mini-site.louvre.fr/mantegna/acc/xmlen/section_8_6.html. It is held in the left hand of the lady at our lower left. The other virtues are represented by snake (prudence), sword (justice), and...

One thing that might be relevant to Alciato's Temperance is a series of the seven virtues in which only one has wings, namely, Karitas, which is also the highest virtue. See p. 126 and p. 127 at http://books.google.com/books?id=7tIOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad...

I have relayed the typo about "caupo" to Andrea for correction--he sends his thanks--as well as another one, the spelling of the Greek "tarachos" in footnote 12 of the same essay (erroneously spelled "tarochos" in the English version). My knowledge of Latin is minimal. ...