3-fold "Lorenzo" ... game inventors ? Or what ...
Posted: 29 Apr 2013, 03:03
Recently the "new" oldest references to the game name "Germini" was detected .... 1517 and 1519.
http://trionfi.com/germini-1517-1519
In the center of the new detection stands the person Lorenzo de Medici, duke of Urbino, who played Germini. This is not the famous Lorenzo de Medici, but his grandson, a son of Piero the Unfortunate, who lost the reign in Florence, when in 1494 the French army appeared, and who died in a river, when he attempted to escape after a lost battle in 1503.
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About 24 years ago Franco Pratesi published about the "still" oldest references to the game name "Minchiate" in 1466, 1470/71 and 1477. The note of 1466, the oldest of these 3 documents, is a letter of the poet Luigi Pulci to Lorenzo de Medici, grandfather of the other "Germini"-Lorenzo.
We have republished the relevant article:
http://trionfi.com/tarot-florence-xvi-century
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That's a curious accident having here grandfather and grandson, both already connected by the same name "Lorenzo de Medici", united ALSO by really accidental results of Tarot history research.
Naturally it's not very accidental, but tradition, that persons with the same name appear in families. For the Medici we have in close neighborhood four times "Lorenzo de Medici":
1. Lorenzo de Medici: 1395-1440 ... called the elder, granduncle of the famous Lorenzo de Medici, brother of Cosimo the elder.
2. Lorenzo de Medici: 1449 - 1492 .. the famous ... = MINCHIATE-Lorenzo, grandson of Cosimo the elder
3. Lorenzo de Medici: September 1492 ... born in the death year of his grandfather Lorenzo the famous, (died in 1492 April 9) died himself soon
4. Lorenzo de Medici: bon September 1493 ... born a year later than his brother (3) with the same name, naturally with the same grandfather ... = GERMINI-Lorenzo
It's very common in families, that children get names of relatives, often the name of the grandfather (see 1492, see 1493). Also it's common, that families avoid double naming, when the relatives still live (see 1449; not Cosimo was taken, but Lorenzo, the dead granduncle). I's also relative common, that, when a child with a specific name died, that the next child with the same gender got the same name (see 1493).
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Now we have in our research practice 4 playing card riddles, which we follow with some intensity (well, likely some of us have made these many, often frustrating, but occasionally very successful search engine operations):
1. Trionfi (or similar) ... with the current solution: 1440 Florence
2. Minchiate (or similar) ... with the current solution: MINCHIATE-Lorenzo (1466)
3. Tarocchi (or similar) ... with the current solution: 1505 Ferrara
4. Germini (or Gemini) ... with the current solution: GERMINI-Lorenzo (1517)
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Just being made a little bit curious about the strange accident with MINCHIATE-Lorenzo and GERMINI-Lorenzo I just placed behind the "Trionfi (or similar)" question a "TRIONFI-Lorenzo", and looked, what I could find. It wasn't really difficult:
1440-09-16: Giusto-Giusti document
1440-09-23: death of Lorenzo de Medici, called the elder, died one week later than the Giusto document.
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In the larger context we have, that Lorenzo was the 6-years-younger brother of Cosimo and he naturally stood in the shadow of him. Filelfo, who knew the Medici from the early 1430s and had feelings about them, called Cosimo a "fox", Lorenzo a "cow" and a cousin Averardo a "wolf".
Normal biographies see him just occupied with the banking function. I remember, that I've earlier got some material, from which I concluded, that Lorenzo had greater responsibilities for the intellectual side of Florence, and that young Piero de Medici took this role, after Lorenzo died. Cosimo had higher functions, focused on the power in the state, naturally he delegated a lot of things.
For the moment - bad internet connection - closer use of books.google.com is difficult to me, so I can only refer to that, what I remember. I remember, but I might err, that the poetical contest of October 1441 was dedicated to the (dead) Lorenzo.
Lorenzo's biggest role, that he had in his life, was, when he arranged, that the council of Ferrara became a council of Florence, and there it led to a series of "triumphal events" and these events possibly triggered an interest in the "Trionfi" of Petrarca and this activity might have triggered ALSO the existence of playing cards, which were called Trionfi decks.
For the first illustrated Trionfi book (known by the Matteo de Pasti letter in January 1441) ordered by Piero we have, that this happened after Giusti-Giusto-deck, but also after Lorenzo's death.
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Indeed a strange accident ...
http://trionfi.com/germini-1517-1519
In the center of the new detection stands the person Lorenzo de Medici, duke of Urbino, who played Germini. This is not the famous Lorenzo de Medici, but his grandson, a son of Piero the Unfortunate, who lost the reign in Florence, when in 1494 the French army appeared, and who died in a river, when he attempted to escape after a lost battle in 1503.
****************
About 24 years ago Franco Pratesi published about the "still" oldest references to the game name "Minchiate" in 1466, 1470/71 and 1477. The note of 1466, the oldest of these 3 documents, is a letter of the poet Luigi Pulci to Lorenzo de Medici, grandfather of the other "Germini"-Lorenzo.
We have republished the relevant article:
http://trionfi.com/tarot-florence-xvi-century
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That's a curious accident having here grandfather and grandson, both already connected by the same name "Lorenzo de Medici", united ALSO by really accidental results of Tarot history research.
Naturally it's not very accidental, but tradition, that persons with the same name appear in families. For the Medici we have in close neighborhood four times "Lorenzo de Medici":
1. Lorenzo de Medici: 1395-1440 ... called the elder, granduncle of the famous Lorenzo de Medici, brother of Cosimo the elder.
2. Lorenzo de Medici: 1449 - 1492 .. the famous ... = MINCHIATE-Lorenzo, grandson of Cosimo the elder
3. Lorenzo de Medici: September 1492 ... born in the death year of his grandfather Lorenzo the famous, (died in 1492 April 9) died himself soon
4. Lorenzo de Medici: bon September 1493 ... born a year later than his brother (3) with the same name, naturally with the same grandfather ... = GERMINI-Lorenzo
It's very common in families, that children get names of relatives, often the name of the grandfather (see 1492, see 1493). Also it's common, that families avoid double naming, when the relatives still live (see 1449; not Cosimo was taken, but Lorenzo, the dead granduncle). I's also relative common, that, when a child with a specific name died, that the next child with the same gender got the same name (see 1493).
*************
Now we have in our research practice 4 playing card riddles, which we follow with some intensity (well, likely some of us have made these many, often frustrating, but occasionally very successful search engine operations):
1. Trionfi (or similar) ... with the current solution: 1440 Florence
2. Minchiate (or similar) ... with the current solution: MINCHIATE-Lorenzo (1466)
3. Tarocchi (or similar) ... with the current solution: 1505 Ferrara
4. Germini (or Gemini) ... with the current solution: GERMINI-Lorenzo (1517)
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Just being made a little bit curious about the strange accident with MINCHIATE-Lorenzo and GERMINI-Lorenzo I just placed behind the "Trionfi (or similar)" question a "TRIONFI-Lorenzo", and looked, what I could find. It wasn't really difficult:
1440-09-16: Giusto-Giusti document
1440-09-23: death of Lorenzo de Medici, called the elder, died one week later than the Giusto document.
************
In the larger context we have, that Lorenzo was the 6-years-younger brother of Cosimo and he naturally stood in the shadow of him. Filelfo, who knew the Medici from the early 1430s and had feelings about them, called Cosimo a "fox", Lorenzo a "cow" and a cousin Averardo a "wolf".
Normal biographies see him just occupied with the banking function. I remember, that I've earlier got some material, from which I concluded, that Lorenzo had greater responsibilities for the intellectual side of Florence, and that young Piero de Medici took this role, after Lorenzo died. Cosimo had higher functions, focused on the power in the state, naturally he delegated a lot of things.
For the moment - bad internet connection - closer use of books.google.com is difficult to me, so I can only refer to that, what I remember. I remember, but I might err, that the poetical contest of October 1441 was dedicated to the (dead) Lorenzo.
Lorenzo's biggest role, that he had in his life, was, when he arranged, that the council of Ferrara became a council of Florence, and there it led to a series of "triumphal events" and these events possibly triggered an interest in the "Trionfi" of Petrarca and this activity might have triggered ALSO the existence of playing cards, which were called Trionfi decks.
For the first illustrated Trionfi book (known by the Matteo de Pasti letter in January 1441) ordered by Piero we have, that this happened after Giusti-Giusto-deck, but also after Lorenzo's death.
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Indeed a strange accident ...