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Tutti i trionfi carri, mascherate o canti carnascialeschi, andati per Firenze dal tempo del Magnifico Lorenzo de' Medici fino all'anno 1559
Lucca, 1750 - 594 pages
(likely based on the version of 1559)
http://books.google.de/books?id=3wNZAAA ... navlinks_s

I thought it of interest to have the content pages moved together for an easier overview. There are a lot of objects, some relate to a Trionfi, other to games. I marked these in blue, and likely will take a look on them (if I'm patient enough).

It starts this way:



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The texts start with a picture of Lorenzo de Medici, who is also the first presented poet. He looks rather old at this medal.

Notes

1. Trionfo della Compagnia Broncone, p. 134

... leads to an interesting page, which reports details od the carnival celebration in Florence in 1513
http://www.palazzo-medici.it/mediateca/ ... _Carnevale
Author is Jacopo Nardi, who participates at the carnival 1513.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_Nardi
Carnival 1513 (... - 18th of February) was just a few days before the death of pope Julius II and a few weeks before the election of Giovanni di Medici, later pope Leo X.

This carnival contribution was arranged by the compagnie del Diamante e del Broncone (both impresa of the Medici).

2. Canto di Giucatori d'Aliosso addresses the game with astragali.

3. Canto de' Bericuocolaj, by Lorenzo de Medici, page 7, was object to an article by Girolamo Zorli
http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del ... de-medici/
It speaks about the card game Bassetta. It has also the name "Canzona de' Confortini".

4. Canzona della palla col trespolo, page 410, has also the name "Canzona del calcio" (a sort of old Italian soccer, whic was rather old in Florence). Calcio is also addressed in Canto di giucatori
di palla a maglio and Canto de' pallai

Further Notes

5. Antonio Francesco Grazzini (March 22, 1503 – February 18, 1584)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Francesco_Grazzini

Explanation to some of his poems: Canto di Giucacatori di Pome
http://books.google.de/books?id=vXsNAAA ... me&f=false

Jeu de Paume (?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeu_de_paume

Huck wrote: 3. Canto de' Bericuocolaj, by Lorenzo de Medici, page 7, was object to an article by Girolamo Zorli
http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del ... de-medici/
It speaks about the card game Bassetta. It has also the name "Canzona de' Confortini".

The Song of the Sweetmeat Sellers

_My translation (with heavy reliance on Marco's text as crib) of the couple of verses of the Canzona de' Confortini by Lorenzo di Medici c.1475 that are included in a performance by "The Toronto Consort":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G2ND5uqGJ0

Ladies! We have candied plums and sweetmeats:
if you want some, then ours are a treat.

Don’t ask how they're made, we won’t show you,
it’s a waste of time, too much trouble to go to;
please don’t waste your time, like so many do,
and eat all alone from little pots,
tiny little pots.

Ladies! We have candied plums and sweetmeats:
if you want some, then ours are a treat.

This art we young men make our living on:
it’s enough we have the finest of buns!
Please don’t wait around to be given one,
you should spend all your time having fun--
and pay us a penny -- your pretty penny.

Ladies! We have candied plums and sweetmeats:
if you want some, then ours are a treat!

The complete version of Canzona de' Confortini makes reference to several card games. The original text and an english version by Marco with a few minor adjustments by me, can be found at Tarotpedia:

http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/%28Loren ... confortini

Ddiscussed in thread here:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=718&p=10415&hilit=Confortini#p10415

Nice, that you participate in this collection ...

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Giovanni Battista Strozzi captured my interest:

Giovan Battista Strozzi (1503-1571) is called a friend of Bronzino.
http://books.google.de/books?id=rVfDvT_ ... zi&f=false

Bronzino wrote an important poem, in which also Germini is included ("In Lodo dal Zanzara"). I once talked with Marco about it ...
http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t= ... t=bronzino
Franco suspects, that the poem might of the 1530s and with that it might be a rather early reference to Germini.

http://books.google.de/books?id=5WIseuA ... zi&f=false
... offers the life dates "1505-1571" and identifies him as a son of Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi. Grand-father Filippo Strozzi is likely ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Strozzi_the_Elder
... and father Lorenzo Strozzi likely ...
"Lorenzo (1482–1549), who founded the line of the Princes of Forano".
[which should be the Lorenzo Strozzi, who also appears as a poet in the collection, page 211, but with only two canti; Giovan Battista has only one, "Trionfo delle Furie", possibly indicating some strong anger)].

Members of this Strozzi family were involved in the Germini documents of 1517/1519 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_St ... he_Younger
http://trionfi.com/germini-1517-1519

... and much later (likely) in the production of the Tarot de Paris 1559 (after a part of the family had to leave Florence in 1537).
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=755&p=10777&hilit= ... zzi#p10777
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_di_Piero_Strozzi

Following the genealogical tree at ...
http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/allegati/P2.pdf
... the poet Giovan Battista Strozzi (here 1505-1571) and his son Lorenzo (1561-1591) became the only Strozzi family part, which kept some importance in Florence.
The mother of Giovan Battista Strozzi was a daughter of Bernardo Rucellai, important brother-in-law to Lorenzo Magnifico and an important friend of same age in Lorenzo's youth. Bernardo appears also as a poet on the list.