... (in addition to the Sforza Death trump holding arrow above, there are many other representations of God/Jupiter with arrow as well, such as in the Trinci palace frescoes, not to mention the numerous poetic uses of arrow as wrathful lighting bolt from the likes of Filelfo I've posted elsewhere here). ...

... This was not a cultural dead-end as testified by the Paduan astrological manuscript tradition but also the planetary frescoes in a hall of the Trinci Palace in Foligno (c. 1412), where the different Ages of Man (infancy, childhood, adolescence, youth, adulthood, deterioration, old age, decrepitude) ...

Its important to understand the Phoenix in its connection with the Visconti obsessions of divine descent and their genealogy, from the Michelino Jupiter/Aeneas/Venus crowning of oak-covered genealogy to the Sforza PMB's "Star" which holds a "del Parto" hand over the stomach while...

This is an addition to my previous post, having to do with lightning. Given Filippo's apparent desire not to make the lightning-strike on his castle public, and its significance as a bad omen, I cannot imagine him commissioning a deck with a Lightning card (early name Sagitta, late 18th century Tor...

In response to Huck's post in the Trinci family thread: https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=26019#p26019 On Antonio della Scala's possible phoenix heraldry. "The opening card of the Commentary on the Letters of the Apostles ...

In response to Huck's post in the Trinci family thread: https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=26019#p26019 On Antonio della Scala's possible phoenix heraldry. In brief: some authors have claimed it on the basis of textual interpretation, ...

Wonderful insights, thanks all. Before I consider all of it, a couple of more things. In his first letter on 31 December, to Catone Sacco (the same who dedicated the third book of his Semideus to Filippo Maria - the book already finished, it seems, but the dedication was new - at around this time), ...

... in it, whenever it may have made its first appearance, so likely not in the Cary-Yale. Added: in case anyone wonders what this has to do with the Trinci, it doesn't. I am reflecting on Ross's posts at https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=26004#p26004 https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=26011#p26011 ...

Francesco da Fabio, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno .... Scipio Africanus Ille ego sum, patriam Poeno qui Marte cadentem Sustinui rapulque feris ex hostibus urbes Hispanas, Hannonisque acies magnumque Syphacem Perdomui et fractum totiens armisque ...

"Burning of the Yule log" seems good enough to me (and fireworks at New Years from that), for a ceremony personally and unusually conducted by Filippo himself. However, it would have been more complex than simply throwing a log on the fire. Wikipedia says (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yul...