You read me wrong:Huck wrote:I don't know, of which legitimate male heir of Filippo Maria you speak of in the year 1440
"I just don't see how Visconti would even begin to consider Leonello, since he [LEONELLO] already had a legitimate male heir [born in 1439, by M. Gonzaga]
Don't forget to add to the above Figline connections that Giusti Giusto was a notary in Figline 1428-29, and ultimately back in his hometown of Anghiari in 1437 where he was chancellor of the Florentine vicar Morelli.Huck wrote:you pointed to Lo Scheggia born in a village (San Giovanni Valdorno) close (c. 8 km) to the original location of the Serristori family (Figline Valdarno).
That's indeed interesting.
...Lo Scheggia * 1406
Father dies + 1406 ; father is a notary as ser Ristoro (grandfather of Antonio) ... which means, that Ser Ristoro and Ser Giovanni di Simone Cassai should have known each other, notaries should have known other notaries in close distance.
Mother comes from the Mugello as daughter of an innkeeper in Barbarino di Mugello ... that's earlier Medici territory, there the Medici came from. Likely the family knew, that Antonio was related by marriage to the Medici.
So let's assume a southeast sub-contado patronage network involving the smaller towns contiguous to Arezzo, from the Valdarno area to the west to Anghiari/Bibbiena to the east, where artists and notaries from this area would have especially bonded when in Florence. That would allow Giusti two different means of being aware of trionfi production from its infancy in Florence - if the ur-Tarot were Medici-backed and after Anghiari - as he could have known about it via the likes of the more important Morelli (a Medici partisan he was attached to) and at the notary/artisan level, assuming the likes of Scheggia was painting the ur-tarot (and one his fellow notaries, Ser Ristoro, from said area was procuring cards for foreign princes - N. d'Este - just as Giusti would for Malatesta).
Phaeded
PS - here's that dal Ponte "allegorical impresa" with what must be Morelli's coat of arms - note the trees and hills in the foreground as if to suggest the less populated (no town symbols) and more mountainous area of Anghiari where Morelli and Giusti served together, the allegory suggesting protection of Florence's interests in such a borderland, something worth celebrating after the victory at Anghiari (per my post here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1005&start=40)