Representation of Urania given by Durher :



Quoting M Howard on this :

"Urania : Albrecht Dürer did an engraving of such a figure (for the Prognosticon of Johannes Stabius, 1502). Called “Urania”, the Greek word for “heaven”, also the name of the Muse of Astronomy, Dürer’s depiction comes close to that of Plato’s description of the World Soul, “interfused everywhere from the center to the circumference of heaven, of which she is the external envelopement" (Timaeus 36E).

BOUGEAREL Alain wrote:Once more Isabelle d'Este ...
Many threads finaly linking to her!

Isabella d'Este took around 1505 the motto "nec spes, nec metu", which means "neither hope nor fear". The suits of Boiardo deck are fear (there called Timor), gelosia (jealousy), Spes (hope) and Amor (love), four Stoic passions. The motto might reflect either the general stoic passions or just Boiardo's specific version of them.

According my own theories the Boiardo poem was written for the wedding of Lucretia d'Este, half-sister of Isabella d'Este, in January 1487. The highest trump in this poem has its focus on the Roman Lucretia, likely not accidently. Lucretia d'Este married Annibale Bentivoglio, the heir of the ruler in Bologna, and it was a very big festivity and a lot of other poets made poems for Lucretia at this opportunity.
Lucretia was illegitimate, but was treated very well in the family. She was the elder sister of Isabella, maybe 5 or 6 years older. Beatrix, the younger, was educated in Naples.

It's not seldom, that younger girls adore the elder girls. Likely Lucretia's wedding impressed young Isabella (12/13 years old at this opportunity). She married 2 years later.

BOUGEAREL Alain wrote: Lionel d'Este

He maries in 1453 with a Gonzague

He had died 1450. He married a Gonzaga daughter, around 1435. She didn't live long.

3. Leonello [by Stella dell´Assassino] Signore ereditario di Modena, Ferrara e Reggio (1441-50), etc.
*Ferrara 21.12.1407, +Palazzo di Belriguarde 1.10.1450.
1m: Ferrara 1.1.1435 Margherita Gonzaga (+7.7.1439) (Gonzaga-influence),
2m: 1444 Maria (+1449) an illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso V of Aragon.
In 1441 he was a young widower in the age of 33 and the exspected heir of Ferrara and possible husband-in-spe to Bianca Maria Visconti

http://trionfi.com/0/d/42

All this was rather long ago in Isabella's time. Leonello had a plan for a studiolo, Isabella got a studiolo, too. But much later.

Isabella got a Muses picture of Mantegna, when she planned her studiolo. 1497.

Lionel d'Este is a kind of Mecene for Mantegna.
Isabelle has some of his works in her litte Studio :

Isablle d'ESte and Mantegna
He is quite present with at least three works at least

Le Studiolo d'Isabelle d'Este est un studiolo italien conçu pour Isabelle d'Este, à l'intérieur du palais ducal de Mantoue, d'abord à l'étage noble (piano nobile) du Château Saint-Georges, puis, en 1523, dans les appartements de la Corte Vecchia.

Le Parnasse et Minerve chassant les Vices du jardin de la Vertu, d'Andrea Mantegna

Le Couronnement d'Isabelle d'Este (1506-1507),
Le règne de Comus commencés par Mantegna et terminés par Lorenzo Costa

BOUGEAREL Alain wrote:Lionel d'Este is a kind of Mecene for Mantegna.

He had a single commission, that's all.

Isabelle has some of his works in her litte Studio :

Isablle d'ESte and Mantegna
He is quite present with at least three works at least

Mantegna spend most of his life-time in Mantova. Since 1459 till his death. Isabella d'Este had married a Gonzaga and was then in Mantova (since 1489).

A little about Isabella and her cards ...
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=432

About Timoteo Viti

Timoteo della Vite ou Timoteo Viti ou encore Timoteo da Urbino1 (né en 1469 à Urbino (Marches), mort en 1523 dans cette même ville) est un peintre italien de l'école ombrienne de la Renaissance actif au xve et xvie siècles.

BIO as given on Wikipedia

Timoteo della Vite est issu d'une famille honorable, petit-fils d'Antonio Alberti de Ferrare.

Décidé à devenir orfèvre, son frère Pierantonio l'invite à Bologne où il devient élève de Francesco Francia.

Il décide par la suite de devenir peintre, et, à Bologne de 1490 à 1495, il a très probablement travaillé avec Raphaël2. Suivant le dire de Vasari, Timoteo Viti aida son illustre compatriote dans l'exécution des fresques de l'église Sanla Maria délia Pace2. Raphaël le représente dans sa célèbre toile L'École d'Athènes.

En 1495 il revient à Urbino, où selon Giorgio Vasari2, Timoteo est un artiste, un poète et un musicien.

Il y remplit également des charges politiques : Il servit de magistrat pendant l'année 1508 et ensuite magistrat en chef en 1513.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoteo_della_Vite

btw.
Franco Pratesi had written about Gosselin 25 years ago ...
http://www.naibi.net/A/44-PHYTHAG-Z.pdf

About the Viti and Boiardo, thread Lucrezia's wedding
1487 :
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1107&start=30



About Antonio Viti :
http://www.trionfi.com/0/h/03/t2.txt


About Timoteo Viti

Timoteo della Vite ou Timoteo Viti ou encore Timoteo da Urbino1 (né en 1469 à Urbino (Marches), mort en 1523 dans cette même ville) est un peintre italien de l'école ombrienne de la Renaissance actif au xve et xvie siècles.

BIO as given on Wikipedia

Timoteo della Vite est issu d'une famille honorable, petit-fils d'Antonio Alberti de Ferrare.

Décidé à devenir orfèvre, son frère Pierantonio l'invite à Bologne où il devient élève de Francesco Francia.

Il décide par la suite de devenir peintre, et, à Bologne de 1490 à 1495, il a très probablement travaillé avec Raphaël2. Suivant le dire de Vasari, Timoteo Viti aida son illustre compatriote dans l'exécution des fresques de l'église Sanla Maria délia Pace2. Raphaël le représente dans sa célèbre toile L'École d'Athènes.

En 1495 il revient à Urbino, où selon Giorgio Vasari2, Timoteo est un artiste, un poète et un musicieeN

Huck wrote:btw.
Franco Pratesi had written about Gosselin 25 years ago ...
http://www.naibi.net/A/44-PHYTHAG-Z.pdf

EXCELLENT FIND HUCK

Nevertheless, with all due respect to Pratesi, after reading it, it has to be revised and updated.
There are so many other topics where Pratesi is relevant ... But his vision of Gosselin is not at all of the same level as his other important and worthy contributions. Well, that's what I think.
Perhaps, M Howard shall have a different approach than mine . I don't know.

Maybe this pubLication of Franco Pratesi shall be revised? Maybe not ?
Who knows finally ... after all, 25 years is a long time and there is new data, no?
Time will say.

From my point of view, It overlooks the specific pythagorean elements of Gosselin.


1582 Gosselin Jean: "La signification de l 'ancien jeu des chartes pythagoriques..."

La plus ancienne référence française explicite connue d' une analyse pythagoricienne du Jeu de cartes ordinaires
- suivi d'une discussion à propos de la conformité ou non de la correspondance des 4 Couleurs d'avec la genèse des 4 Eléments du Timée de Platon
- avec un Additif en Anglais : III. Gosselin et Nicomaque de Gérase

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MTP ... CoA8Y/edit

PDF 14 09 2016
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Hg6j ... sp=sharing

Regarding pp. 192-196 of D'Ooge's translation of Nichomachus, there is a corresponding section in Boethius, ch. 9:

https://books.google.com/books?id=fAPN_ ... ic&f=false

Then proportions are ch. 40, also in 43.

He also discusses the four elements, as can be seen at

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=St ... ts&f=false

It appears that there were many such textbooks.