I wish to ask about the latin description of three cards.Mundus habet primas, croceas dein Angelus alis:
Tum Phoebus, luna, & stellæ, cum fulmine dæmon:
Fama necem, Crux ante senem, fortuna quadrigas:
Cedit amor forti & justo: regemque sacerdos,
Flaminicam regina præit que is campo propinat
Omnibus: extremo stultus discernitur actu.
The world has the primate, then the golden winged angel;
Then Phoebus, the moon and the stars, the devil with the lightning;
Fame precedes death, the cross the old man, fortune the chariot;
Love yields to the strong and the just: the priest precedes the king,
The queen precedes the high priest’s wife, the innkeeper offers drinks
To all these: at the end the fool is recognizable by his behavior.
Card 5 whom we call the Pope = sacerdos
Card 4 whom we call the Emperor = regemque
Card 3 whom we call the Empress = Flamincam
Card 2 whom we call the Papesse/popesse = Regina
Here is the sentence I wonder about...
regemque sacerdos, flaminicam regina præit que is campo propinat
Omnibus: extremo stultus discernitur actu.
Priest and King, Queen and Flamincam for which he has to field all: The latter is distinguished by a foolish act.
Where is Innkeeper? An Innkeeper is a caupo- a campo is a field. Seems a big error for Alciati.
Priest is Sacerdos, but if he had a wife called a Flamincam why was he not called a Flamen?
A High priestess would be called a Summus Sacerdos
A Flamen....is like the priest of a Goddess's cult and he wears a skull cap and cape and if you saw a sculpture you might well think he is a Pope.
The only Flamincam that I can recall who was married was Livia who was also the Empress of Rome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livia
A Flamenca is a Priestess who keeps the sacred flame (and wore a tiara of roses as flora queen of May in Italy for example)and was a Virgin and had many restrictions on her life. Think of a flamenca dancer= A flame of passion.
Who was Andrea Alciati seeing when he spoke of the cards?
In Italian a Priestess is called a sacerdotessa.
~Lorredan
Here is a Flamen