Casa del Petrarca
Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 09:28
By recent research it became obvious (at least to me), that Petrarca's "Trionfi" poem likely had been of great importance for the start of the Trionfi cards in c. 1440.
So I looked up Arqua Petrarca at google maps (last important place in Petrarca's life). I was astonished to find out, that the distance Monselice (there lived Jacopo Antonio Marcello, who in more than one aspect might be a key figure in the documents about early Trionfi decks) to the Casa Petrarca in Arqua Petrarca is just 5 km, so just a Sunday walk or with horse even shorter.
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Casa ... ra=ls&z=14
So Marcello should have felt some personal relation to Petrarca (an with that possibly to the new fashion "Trionfi decks").
Marcello entered the attention of playing card research as a "servant of Renee d'Anjou" (Kaplan I), nowadays we know, that he in 1449 had been an important provedittore for the Venetian army and in his later life he was near to becoming Doge in Venice, so one of the mightiest men in Italy. The title "servant" he got, cause he politely signed a letter to Isabella de Lorraine with "your servant" or similar.
Marcello was active in administrative roles and as sponsor of art. It's hardly imaginable, that he overlooked the new popularity of Petrarca, which favored the close neighborhood. However, Margaret L. King in her "The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello" has only peripheral notes to Petrarca, which can't be controlled by the online edition.
http://books.google.de/books?id=jLfnCvB ... ch&f=false
http://dobianchi.com/tag/arqua/
Google images offers pictures to "Arqua Casa del Petrarca" ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=casa+de ... 40&bih=788
.. but the fresci are from 1546, so of a later time.
So I looked up Arqua Petrarca at google maps (last important place in Petrarca's life). I was astonished to find out, that the distance Monselice (there lived Jacopo Antonio Marcello, who in more than one aspect might be a key figure in the documents about early Trionfi decks) to the Casa Petrarca in Arqua Petrarca is just 5 km, so just a Sunday walk or with horse even shorter.
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Casa ... ra=ls&z=14
So Marcello should have felt some personal relation to Petrarca (an with that possibly to the new fashion "Trionfi decks").
Marcello entered the attention of playing card research as a "servant of Renee d'Anjou" (Kaplan I), nowadays we know, that he in 1449 had been an important provedittore for the Venetian army and in his later life he was near to becoming Doge in Venice, so one of the mightiest men in Italy. The title "servant" he got, cause he politely signed a letter to Isabella de Lorraine with "your servant" or similar.
Marcello was active in administrative roles and as sponsor of art. It's hardly imaginable, that he overlooked the new popularity of Petrarca, which favored the close neighborhood. However, Margaret L. King in her "The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello" has only peripheral notes to Petrarca, which can't be controlled by the online edition.
http://books.google.de/books?id=jLfnCvB ... ch&f=false
http://dobianchi.com/tag/arqua/
Google images offers pictures to "Arqua Casa del Petrarca" ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=casa+de ... 40&bih=788
.. but the fresci are from 1546, so of a later time.