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The church favorite of Bianca by Pizzagalli:
Fu sopratutto a chiese e conventi che Bianca Maria rivolse il suo mecenatismo, sia sotto forma di donazioni a istituti già esistenti, sia nella fondazione di nuove chiese. È curioso notare come queste ultime siano tutte posteriori alla nascita dell’ultimo figlio, quasi fossero per la duchessa un prolungamento del suo ciclo creativo.

Fra le chiese erette da Bianca spicca quella dedicata a San Niccolò da Tolentino, protettore dei matrimoni, che lei volle far costruire addossata a Santa Maria incoronata –il tempio fondato in ricordo dell’ingresso a Milano- costituendo così un unico complesso a doppia facciata, simbolo di una coppia solidamente affiata, che nonostante le crisi e gli ostacoli affrontava giorno per giorno la vita nel reciproco appoggio.

Ne affidò l’esecuzione a Pietro Antonio Solari, figlio di Guiniforte che aveva edificato la prima. L’unita dello stile rendeva manifesto il simbolo rappresentato dalle due chiese affiancate e testiomina anche il gusto personale di Bianca Maria per il codice estetico del gotico lombardo.

Anche le atre chiese di Milano commisionate da Bianca Maria, cioè San Pietro in Gessate per i Benedettini e Santa Maria della Pace dietro suggerimento del francescano portoghese Amedeo Menez da Silva, altra grande figura di rreligioso molto vicina alla duchessa, rispecchiano lo stile dei Solari, ispirato alla tipologia lombarda trecentesca.

Filateriana, invece, appare Santa Maria in Bressanoro, fatta costruire da Bianca Maria presso Castelleone, uno dei suoi luoghi di villeggiatura prediletti. La chiesa è a pianta centrale, con cinquie cupole –schema claro al Filarete- e il pennacchio sembra coincidere con quello disegnato dall’ architetto per il Duomo della sua città ideale, la Sforzinda.

La chiesa sentimentalmente più cara a Bianca Maria fu però San Sigismondo di Cremona, che fece erigere a partire dal 1463 sul luogo della cappella dove si era sposata e per al quale interpellò ancora il Filarete, ma che fu poi realizzata dal cremonese Bartolomeo Gadio. Chiesa e convento furono affidati a un ordine religioso da lei protetto, i monaci betlemiti di San Gerolamo, alle preghiere dei quali affidò il rendimento di grazie per la realizzazione dei sogni espressi in quello stesso luogo vent’anni prima.
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Maybe, We need understand better the relationship between "i monaci betlemiti di San Gerolamo" and the umigliati of the Abazia di Chiaravalle.
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mmfilesi wrote: I have many doubts. Try to explain.

a) PMB and Fournier. Maifreda is related? Is a "joke" of Bianca? Maybe. Further research is needed.
Moakley believed so. She was the one who introduced the concept, and she has been followed in this by many interpreters since. The latest and most extensive proponent has been Barbara Newman.

I am firmly opposed to the identification of the Visconti Sforza Popess with Maifreda.
b) Popess Giovanna ... mmm ... I dont know. Boccaccio speaks about Giovanna and was fashionable in the fifteenth century, but I see a big problem:

If the relationship was so obvious as Dummett says, why not related the Papissa and Giovanna in any document of the time?
I think the Anonymous Franciscan who wrote the Steele Sermon is clearly alluding to Papessa Giovanna when he parenthetically writes of her in his Trump list "La Papessa. O wretches! That which the Christian faith denies."

There is also the possibility that late 15th century images of Papessa Giovanna, found in illuminations of Boccaccio's Famous Women and Jacopo Filippo Foresti (aka Bergamensis), De claris sceletisque mulieribus (Ferrara, 1497), are influenced by Tarot's Popess.


http://www.rosscaldwell.com/images/taro ... apessa.jpg


http://www.rosscaldwell.com/images/taro ... pesse1.jpg


http://www.rosscaldwell.com/images/imag ... afr599.jpg
Illumination of Boccaccio De Mulieribus Claris, BnF fr. 599, text copied before 1467, illustrated c. 1488-1496

For a discussion of the first two images, see my blog post "Van Rijnberk's Mysterious Papesse"
http://ludustriumphorum.blogspot.com/20 ... pesse.html
d) The hypothesis of the Faith is interesting, but I see a problem: Faith in the second position, below the other virtues? mmm ... .. This is very rare.
By "The Faith", I have never meant the Theological Virtue "Faith", but always "The Church" - i.e. your observation e) below.
e) Kaplan's hypothesis that it represents the Church seemsme the strongest (the 01-10 explained by Ross)
There are many cognate images representing precisely this idea, beginning in the mid-16th century. Their lateness makes them somewhat controversial for comparison with Tarot's Popess, but it is not an indefensible position to argue for Tarot's priority in using such a personification.

In all cases, the sense will come not simply from identifying the figure, but also explaining why she is there, whatever she is.
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I am firmly opposed to the identification of the Visconti Sforza Popess with Maifreda.
Sorry Ross, can you tell me why? I am very interesting in your opinion about it.
I think the Anonymous Franciscan who wrote the Steele Sermon is clearly alluding to Papessa Giovanna when he parenthetically writes of her in his Trump list "La Papessa. O wretches! That which the Christian faith denies."
Sorry, friend. I disagree. Clarity would be if I said the name. For example, "La Papessa. O wretches, again Giovanna! That which the Christian faith denies".

There are many possible scenarios for that phrase, which is also cryptic. It can be understood in many ways. For example, Andrea Vitali interpreted differently:
It is an undeniable fact that the High Priestess of the tarots represents Faith, since the same friar, the author of the Sermones, describes it with the words “O miseri quod negat Christiana fides”, a sentence which looks like the incipit of a longer expression, since the monk adds the graphic symbol for etc. to the word fides, in the same manner as in other parts of the Sermones. In the way it appears, the sentence is impossible to translate, but what is interesting is that the friar made a reference to Faith.
There is also the possibility that late 15th century images of Papessa Giovanna, found in illuminations of Boccaccio's Famous Women and Jacopo Filippo Foresti (aka Bergamensis), De claris sceletisque mulieribus (Ferrara, 1497), are influenced by Tarot's Popess.
This is a brilliant idea. :)
I have never meant the Theological Virtue "Faith
Yes, I think in the hypotesis of A. Vitali, not in your articles.

http://www.associazioneletarot.it/page. ... 14&lng=ENG
In all cases, the sense will come not simply from identifying the figure, but also explaining why she is there, whatever she is.
Yes, yes, I agree whit this 100%.
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Curious ...

One day, during a liturgical celebration at the home of a guglielmita, Carabella, guiglelmita adept of Maifreda left his cloak and rope that was tied the mantle. Then they discovered, amazed, that had formed three knots. As the knots in the string of our pope? :-?
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I consulted a specialist in complex mysteries...
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And the specialist has advised me re-read the minutes inquisitorial. I found a curious fact. The guglielmiti painted hidden images of Guglielma in the guise of Santa Caterina. They did this, at least in:

- Santa Maria Maggiore
- Santa Eufemia

[both in Milano]

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In c. 1377, Lanfranco Porro -a noble which working for Visconti- pay the works of "L’Oratorio di santa Maria di Mocchirolo"

http://www.comune.lentatesulseveso.mi.i ... mocchirolo

Among the frescoes, a painting of Santa Caterina, now in Brera.
http://www.foroxerbar.com/viewtopic.php?t=10076
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Well... maybe we can investigate more about st. Catalina (Catherine) when she is in relationship with umiliati or Visconti family.

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Good article of St. Ct. in the Renaissance

http://www.philipresheph.com/a424/proje ... donald.pdf

http://www.philipresheph.com/a424/proje ... donald.pdf
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Yes, Guglielma's followers did paint her disguised as St. Catherine.

But - no one has ever claimed that the Tarot Popess is St. Catherine.

No one has ever claimed that the Tarot Popess is Guglielma.

St. Catherine was never portrayed as a Popess.

In other words, there is no connection between Guglielma disguised as St. Catherine, and the Tarot Popess.

Nice pictures by the way, thanks!

(especially Paul choosing the Fournier Popess)
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Of course, friend!

I don't mean that. I want investigate is the cult of the Guglielminas still existed in the fifteenth century between umiliati.

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Another interesting fact. The guiglelmini thought the apocalypse was about to begin. And in the Visconti's library are de bocks of Joaquim di Fiore.
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Hi Marcos,

For survival of the Guglielmites into the 15th century, there is no evidence at all. The only interesting thing is that Guglielma herself was given a hagiography around 1425 by Antonio Bonfadini in Ferrara - but her history in this account has almost nothing to do with her real life; and of course there are no mentions of things like heresy, Maifreda and Saramita, etc.

You should probably study Barbara Newman's article "The Heretic Saint: Guglielma of Bohemia, Milan, and Brunate"
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_h ... n29167991/
- if you haven't already done so.

This is linked from Mary Greer's post on the subject at her blog -
http://marygreer.wordpress.com/2009/11/ ... -evidence/
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I dont know the Newman article, thanks Ross.

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I have doubts whit this:
If Chiaravalle was the public cult center, the convent of Umiliate nuns at Biassono was the epicenter of Guglielma's private cult
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_h ... ntent;col1

Maifreda was expelled from Biassono. Then they moved to the house of a man named Guglielmo Cuttica aka Codega, but not said when it was. In any case, it is not important.

However this is important:
For example, it would explain why the manuscript was eventually found in Pavia, for that is the place where the vast Visconti-Sforza library was housed before it was pillaged and dispersed in the sixteenth century, after the fall of the dynasty. (82) My theory does raise a perplexing question, however: If Matteo Visconti saw fit to confiscate the trial record as soon as he had the opportunity, why did he not simply destroy it, rather than preserving a bowdlerized version? The answer, I suggest, is that in spite of the inquisition, the Visconti continued to cherish the memory of St. Guglielma and Sister Maifreda, and were determined to preserve a record of their religious movement in private hands where the knowledge could do no further harm.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_h ... ntent;col1

Bianca can read the true story. That is the information I was looking. :)

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Well... I need investigate more, but, at the moment, I dont have reason to reject the hypothesis of Moakley. My mental state is "may be" + +.

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Da Frate Antonio Bonfadini. Vite Di S. Guglielma Regina D'Ungheria E Di S. Eufrasia Vergine Romana

http://books.google.es/books?id=Xh-qNLl ... &q&f=false
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