.... :-) .... so, nice, that we talked about this. Absolutely! It's good you remembered the discrepancy, and that I felt compelled for some reason to get to the bottom of it. In so doing, I found the Cronaca malatestiana , which in many places is a good complement to Giusto Giusti for the same date...

Fine. Interestingly the same page has an entry about XII October (the other death date of Ginevra), directly below and directly above are notes of September 3 (Ginevras death date is below). Possibly a minor mental confusion of a writer? In the text around these entries the writer follows the ordin...

Well, here indeed is a contemporary chronicle that says 3 September, at the 13th hour (since it's early September, sun sets around 19:30, I'd say the 13th hour is about 09:00). Cronaca malatestiana del XV secolo https://archive.org/details/p2rerumitalicarums15card/page/80/mode/2up http://www.rosscal...

This Italian page gives 3 September for Ginevra's death, too, and says that the marriage contract had been made in Cremona in October 1441. So this must have been some dealing between Malatesta and Sforza, not an actual wedding with Polissena there. https://www.ereticopedia.org/sigismondo-pandolfo-m...

I found a refererence to this text .... https://docplayer.gr/3525005-Georgios-gemistos-plethon-the-byzantine-and-the-latin-renaissance-edited-by-jozef-matula-paul-richard-blum.html Der Lieblingssohn des Niccolò, Hugo, und Parisina, beide gerade erst 20 Jahre alt, hatten sich ineinander verliebt, un...

There are 2 different dates for the death of Ginevra. The majority of the writers has "around 12th of October 1440". The other is, if I remember correctly, the 3rd of September 1440. We don't know, which of the dates is correct. The resource to consult on this question might be Roberta Io...

To your last points, But even assuming a standard for the PMB, AS, EE, and CVI (which I do), this "preponderance" all date to after 1451 which is when I see the innovation of expansion. Lumping the CY in with the "preponderance" is an ahistorical rhetorical maneuver to make it lo...

So you're pivoting to Petrarch's text in order to not address the seven canonical virtues the Florentines did put on their edifice? No, I'm not pivoting to anything, because I'm not trying to explain what Sagramoro painted. I have no idea. I'm just throwing it out there. I suppose the only premise ...

Here's the Piero who was beheaded in 1457, Piero di Giovacchino d'Ardingo de' Ricci - http://www.rosscaldwell.com/pierodericcigiovacchino.jpg https://books.google.fr/books?id=fQlfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR86&dq=%22piero+de%27+ricci%22+%221457%22&hl=fr&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved...

Ross, thanks for giving a nuanced take here, and the inclusion of Caesar can almost be entirely attributed to Alfonso's cultural program and the Florentine need to flatter him (and most importantly, keep the grain shipments from Naples coming ). And we need to be very circumspect in weighing what p...