Phaeded wrote (the Marziano deck implicitly divine by way of the Celestials) The "celestials" are false gods, for Marziano, Marcello, and every other Christian of medieval, euhemeristic perspective. That a deck of such "gods" is more precious than the ordinary one of "divin...

Actually as far as a stimulus for the trionfi, there are many possibilities. What would Fibbia's stimulus have been, since you bring him in, Huck? I myself tend to have as my conjecture the same as Dummett's in Il Mondo e l"Angelo , namely the stimulus of Marziano's "game of the gods"...

We followed a longer time the idea to search for events, which might have triggered the invention Trionfi cards. Especially Phaeded suggested strongly the battle of Anghiari end of June 1440 as the deciding event. I personally thought often of the council Ferrara/Florence in 1438/39. But there was ...

I don’t see any distinction made between the standard tarot that Marcello knew of and the Marziano deck in terms of either being more or less divine – standard tarot is definitely referred to as “divine” (the Marziano deck implicitly divine by way of the Celestials): 1. Marcello mentions trionfi and...

A specific picture of a person with a snail helmet was claimed as evidence for the assumption, that the Nicola di maestro Antonio had been the painter of the Sola Busca. It appeared in the exhibition catalog, as far I got it. The same picture appeared in one of my posts some years ago at AT, based ...

Huck wrote:

larger view at http://trionfi.com/tarot/new-themes/sepher-yetzirah/
larger view at the basic picture: http://trionfi.com/001/ichingsphere.jpg

They told me there would no math involved here...

Huck, Not sure if you ever saw this manuscript or not, Royal 19 C XI (French, c. 1400-1450): http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5739&CollID=16&NStart=190311 Compilation of various texts, but the illumintations all seem related to the societal stations of man, ...

Mike, I've brought this book up in regard to the God-denying fool but Kolve also has a chapter dedicated to the Sun in Gemini with several manuscript images reproduced (which Google Books unfortunately leaves out - you'll need to view the book at your local library); Google books link with search se...

Phaeded wrote Actually what I said: "I also find the notion of the trumps as primarily spiritual problematic because those explicitly “spiritual” cards can simply be viewed as vignettes of the late medieval worldview..." But the renaissance thinkers reinterpreted the late medieval worldvi...

Huck wrote Well, the PMB putto is winged. Makes this a big difference? I find the cruciform layout of the radiate flames and the fact that the sun is a mask equally significant. I offered the following on 27 Nov 2013, 20:02: the putto holding the PMB Sun mask does have a relationship to Revelations...