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My impressions of the 45 sonnets go in the direction, that the author attempted to describe a sort of Minchiate with 45 elements (sonetti). The normal Minchiate has 40 trumps + 1 Fool, totally 41 figures. The author of the collection adds (possibly) 4 figures. In the collection it seems, as if he occasionally relates Minchaite number objects to the same numbers in the sonetti, at least in the first half of the order "22 sonetti (1-22) + Sonetto 23 + 22 sonetti (24-45)"
Sonetto 13 seems to relate to Minchiate 13, Death
Sonetto 5 seems to relate to Minchiate 5, Love
Sonetto 16 seems to relate to Minchiate 16, Hope and this in very specific way
I give this latter as an example ....
Sonetto 16
Ecco doppo la nebia el cel sereno
che invita li uccelletti andare a schera;
ecco la luce che resplende ove era
di caligine opaca dianci pieno.
Afligice mo, Invidia, aspro veneno
a cui t’alberga! abassa la tua altera
testa, ché chiunque alfine in Dio non spera,
presto ne veni ogni sua forza al meno!
Carità cun Iustizia e intera Fede,
che sempre furno a me fide compagne,
secur mi fan de chi fra via m’assale;
e mentre el cor, ch’è in me, da lor se vede
acompagnato andar, poco gli cale
di che altrui rida, o di che alcun si lagne.
The automatic translation gives
Sonnet 16
Here is after the fog and the clear sky
who invites the little birds to go joking;
here is the light that shines where it was
full of opaque haze.
Afligice mo, Envy, bitter veneno
to which he takes care of you! lower your haughtiness
head, because whoever finally does not hope in God,
soon all strength of him will come at least!
Charity with Justice and entire Faith,
who always were faithful companions to me,
secur they make me of who between via me assale;
and while el cor, which is in me, he sees from them
accompanied to go, little hauls
what others laugh at, or what some complain about.
We have here noted 3 theological virtues (Spes, Fides, Caritas) and 2 cardinal virtues (Fortitudo, Iustititia).
In the usual modern Minchiate we have the row "16 Hope - 17 Prudentia - 18 Faith - 19 Charity".
Minchiate 16 is a break of the standard Trionfi system, the trumps 16-35 contain titles, which are foreign to the normal Trionfi sequences.
In the 45 sonetti: Iustitia appears only in sonetto 16. Prudentia appears only in Sonetto 11. Forza-Forze-Sforzi appears in the sonetti 8-11-16-22-25-31-43.
In Minchiate Justice gets the 8, Prudentia gets 17 and Forza gets 7. The word "Tempre", which is possibly Temperance in the poem, appears in sonetto 19 and in the Minchiate 6.
The row of the exclamation signs goes
4,9,13,13,13,
15,16,16,17,18,18,19,44
4 = 2*2, 9 = 3*3, 4+9 =13 (3 exclamation signs)
15,16,16,17,18,18,19, ... unbroken row of exciting exclamation marks
Perhaps the author wants to show the reader his personal intensity on these themes. Pico della Mirandola has in 1486 the age of 23 and the structure of the poem has a clear focus on sonetto 23. Perhaps Pico used associations to "life years". Sonetto 1 looks, as if the theme relates to the role of a babe, the word Madonna is used there. In Sonetto 10 he uses the word Fanciul (child, fanciul appears also in 23), possibly relating to the life of a 10-years-old. From this perspective the years
Sonetto 17 .... Prudentia in Minchiate ????
Che fai, alma? che pensi? Ragion, desta
lo spirto, ché la voglia è già trascorsa
là dove ogni salute nostra è in forsa,
se la diffesa tua non sarà presta;
aluma el core; el penser vago aresta;
così fa’ el senso, che punto lo smorsa.
O scogli, o mar falace, ove era corsa
la debil barca mia in sì atra tempesta!
Da ora inanci fia più l’ochio interno
acorto; ogni desir men bono è spento;
la mente accesa al ben, presta e gagliarda.
E se puncto te offesi, o Patre eterno,
perdoname, sì come io me ne pento:
sai che da’ primi assalti om mal si guarda.
automatic translation
What are you doing, alma? what do you think? Reason, wake up
the spirit, because the desire has already passed
where all our health is in force,
if your defense is not lent;
aluma el core; el penser vago aresta;
so does the sense, what a point it smells.
O rocks, o falace sea, where she had run
my weak boat in such a terrible storm!
From now on, the inner eye is more active
short; every desir men bono is extinguished;
the mind turned on to the well, lend and vigorous.
And if I puncti you offended, O eternal Patre,
forgive me, yes as I regret it:
you know that from the first attacks om you look badly.
There are various words, which associate mental operations and Prudentia ... think, reason, spirit, inner eye, mind
Sonetto 18 ... Faith in Minchiate 18
Lasso, che un’altra face el cor m’enfiamma,
che gli ardenti desiri ivi rinova
e l’antiquo pensier, nel qual si cova
el foco che me struge a dramma a dramma.
Felici anni nei quai chiamava mamma;
longi dal mal in cor l’alma si trova!
Pietà di me, Signor, tu che per prova
intendi qual è Amor, qual la sua fiamma!
E se talor con la mia donna parli,
per cui tuo fido amico andar si vede
privo del cor, de libertà e di pace,
piaciati noto apertamente farli
qual son gli affanni miei, qual è la fede,
quanto una mente altera a Dio dispiace.
"fede" means Faith. "fede" is not rare, it appears in the sonetti 8,16,18,20,27,29,34,38,39. There is another interesting word "mamma". The mother of Pico della Mirandola died "1487", a specific date is not known and not the reason. Sonetto 18 is a specific place.
Sonetto 5 ... 5 places distance to the begin of the sonnets ... contains the words amor, timor, speranza,
Sonetto 18 ... 5 places distance to sonetto 23 ... contains the words mamma and fede, none of the 4 stoic passions
Sonetto 28 ... 5 places distance to sonetto 23 ... contains the words triunfi, amor, gelosia
Sonetto 41 ... 5 places distance to the end of the sonnets
01 02 03 04
[05] 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
[18] 19 20 21 22
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[23] .......................................................
24 25 26 27
[28] 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
[41] 42 43 44 45
Sonetto 19 .... Caritas in Minchiate 19
Caritas appears in 34
E mentre e’ mie’ passati error pensando
men vo, fermo nel cor l’alte radice
de Carità, di Fede e di Speranza.
Caritas appears in 16 ... as already shown
Afligice mo, Invidia, aspro veneno
a cui t’alberga! abassa la tua altera
testa, ché chiunque alfine in Dio non spera,
presto ne veni ogni sua forza al meno!
Carità cun Iustizia e intera Fede,
che sempre furno a me fide compagne,
secur mi fan de chi fra via m’assale;
Caritas appears NOT in Sonetto 19
Sonetto 19
Che bisogna che più nel mar si raspe,
fra tante frode e fra sì falsi inganni?
Parca, depone el fin a tanti affanni,
qual si sia quella che ‘l mio fato inaspe!
Da l’erculëo freto al fiume Idaspe
si sa como abia perso i mei verdi anni
in adorar colei, che nei mei danni
si gloria, a mie pregher’ sorda qual aspe.
Sino gli ucelli, i fiummi, i monti e campi
san como suspirando si distempre
il pecto stanco e como il cor avampi;
san como Amor e in che diverse tempre
senza pietà me incenda con doi lampi:
donque meglio è morir che languir sempre.
automatic translation
That it must be rasped more in the sea,
amid so many frauds and such false deceptions?
Parca, lays el fin to so many worries,
what is the one that 'my fate inaspe!
From l'erculëo freto to the Idaspe river
you know how I lost my green years
in adoring her, who in my damage
glory, to me I will pray deaf aspe.
Even the birds, the rivers, the mountains and fields
san como suspirando is always distracted
pecto tired and como cor avampi;
san como Amor and in what different tempers
mercilessly set me on fire with lightning:
however, it is better to die than to languish forever.
"l’erculëo freto al fiume Idaspe" possibly refers to .....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Hydaspes
About distempre and tempre I assume, that this relates to the virtue Temperantia. I don't feel totally sure about it. Tempre appears also in the sonetti 24 and 43
With that all 7 virtues appeared in the discussion of sonetto 16 till sonetto 19.