CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST, TRANSLATION OF https://naibi.net/A/FI1814.pdf, now with pp. 3-4. 3 Once said Figures have been printed, he [each manufacturer] can take them to his own factory to be colored according to the model (Note 10) that will be given to him by the Office, but before this, the n...

Now I am posting a translation of another of Franco's essays, this one posted January 2, 2024, at https://naibi.net/A/FI1814.pdf). I undertook it before the rest of the 2023 pieces because it continues the narrative from the preceding essays already translated above, in particular from the reform of...

Sorry for the late reply, Phaeded. My available time has been devoted to Franco's latest posts on naibi.net. But at the moment my email isn't working properly, our main means of communication. But THF is. It seems to me that the minchiate angel is offering the viewer a choice - the arrow of death or...

Here is a translation of one more of Franco's essays, this one transcribing correspondence from Florence to Cortona about supplying stamped cards from the former to the latter. The authors are the same Aldini and Gavard, in all their officiousness, as in previous posts. In this correspondence we lea...

Here is the coup de grace, relegating Aldini "to his rest," as his superior puts it, streamlining the operation so as to end the system of the stamp concession, keeping the stamp and its revenue but not the generous pay envelope of its former head with opportunities for even more income th...

Here finally is what I hope is an adequate translation of Franco's essay on the hapless Signore Domenico Aldini (https://www.naibi.net/A/ALDINI.pdf). Franco has been on his trail quite a while, first mentioning him in an essay written in 1990, at the end of an article in English published in The Pla...

About Huck's post previously: be advised not to take the machine translation very seriously, especially for the parts in Italian. The machines are not yet as good as the people they mimic when it comes to older Italian, especially in correspondence by people of varying educational attainments and no...

In this post I am going over again Death and Fame. Below are the Robertet illustrations (I have deleted the poems above and below) https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=3001 24461DeathFameDET.jpg Regarding the Robertet illustrator's presentation of Death as the three Fates rather than ...

Phaeded: I am not clear about which crown you are talking about in the CY, as there are two of them - one in her hand and one above the scene. I am talking about the one in her hand. She seems to be offering it to someone, probably the knight below. I think the crown in the minchiate card is also be...

I have a few reflections on the essay just posted. I want to start at the end and work backwards. Franco wrote: At the limit, again for someone who does not require traditional artistic contributions to the design - which will presumably immediately turn away all potentially interested artists from ...