Franceschini docs. 823m and 923a mention cards. 923a is for 1460 - this seems to be the same entry quoted for 952a.

The other entries (823i, 916b and c) don't mention cards. I'll scan them when I have a little time (in an hour or so).

If the "dice wheels" and the "hour wheels" are not identical in every case - although they appear to be - then there is room for many more responses. Edited - no, even that is wrong. It is 42x36=1512, while there are 1628 responses. There are 116 responses more than necessary. Th...

Sorry I cant explain better... :( I try in spanish and then in English Es literamente imposible que se vean 72 respuestas de los astrólogos. Desde las esferas SOLO podemos ver 1512 respuestas. Hay 72 a las que nunca se puede llegar. *** 72 cuestion of astrologi are inaccessible. You never can read ...

The two dice are only rolled in the wheels with 21 results, step 4 of the consultation. This leads to the spheres page that tells you which Astrologer to turn to, and which number on the Astrologer. Yes, but the spheres are 36 spheres, each with 42 directions (equal 1512) and the astrologers are 72...

The two dice are only rolled in the wheels with 21 results, step 4 of the consultation. This leads to the spheres page that tells you which Astrologer to turn to, and which number on the Astrologer.

The collection of registers of the Ducal Chamber for 1456 and 1458 contain accounts of Marchione Burdochio as well - http://books.google.fr/books?id=zk5KjCwQt0kC&pg=PP1&dq=%22marchione+burdochio%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=marchione&f=false http://www.rosscaldwell.com/images/tarotart/bol...

A lovely copy of Ripa's Iconologia 1603 on ebay - worth studying the enlargements of the pages before it disappears. I don't think I've seen this edition online before, although it could be hiding somewhere. Scroll down... Pen Thanks Pen, lovely! Image 41, "Bellezza", is particularly remi...

I think the main argument against the derivation from tarah , tare etc. is the final vowel. The shift from a long or short "a" to a long "o" in "taro", consistently and universally, seems implausible. It is also unnecessary given that the word "taroc" is known...

That's amazing Marco! Thanks for bringing our attention to it. Lucky you... I hope they will bring out the Brambilla again to show with it, if they have an exhibition, and publish a catalogue with good colour pictures of all the cards (Brambilla is already well presented in Bandera's 1999 Brera cata...

My sources which discuss the iconography of Fama don't identify the captives. This old article seems to discuss the state of the question up to 1937 however - Shorr, D. C, "The Identification of the Captives in Petrarch's Triumph of Fame". Die graphischen Künste , NF, Bd. II, S. 41 — 44. ...