Re: Fernando de la Torre

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Ross G. R. Caldwell wrote: Yes. What kind of exposure to the Republic might he have had in Florence, before 1434?

Asking you to refresh me on Hankins...
My Hankins is back in the UK (I thought you had a copy now, I seem to recall you quoting from it?).

Anyhows there is some information in old thread here, with some direct quotes, over various postings starting from about post 43:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=70236&page=5

The thread is also split into another thread in reference to education and Plato here:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=72528

Plato's Republic seems to have been of some importance in the polemics of propaganda (in both peace and wartime) between Florence and Milan.

Re: Fernando de la Torre

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SteveM wrote:
Ross G. R. Caldwell wrote: Yes. What kind of exposure to the Republic might he have had in Florence, before 1434?

Asking you to refresh me on Hankins...
My Hankins is back in the UK (I thought you had a copy now, I seem to recall you quoting from it?).


Not yet, unfortunately, still too steep for my discretionary funds. Hence anything I quote would be either from previous quotes from you, or from web-available partial views, like Google Books -
http://books.google.com/books?id=BLgfAAAAIAAJ

Anyhows there is some information in old thread here, with some direct quotes, over various postings starting from about post 43:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=70236&page=5

The thread is also split into another thread in reference to education and Plato here:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=72528

Plato's Republic seems to have been of some importance in the polemics of propaganda (in both peace and wartime) between Florence and Milan.
Great! Thanks for marking that thread. I remember the debates from the late 1430s, but I didn't know what would be from before 1434. If he picked up a lot, Fernando de la Torre must have been precocious and very impressionable.
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