The strange theories of Trionfi.com (...:-) ... occasionally suspected as a "crackpot theory" ) meanwhile found some acceptance in Italy Italian: http://www.letarot.it/Andrea-Vitali-presidente-tarot-tarocchi_pag_pg166_ita.aspx English: http://www.letarot.it/Trionfi.com_pag_pg166_eng.aspx s...

Good research on Chaucer's trip to Italy, Huck. Chaucer's poem was in English. Did Petrarch read English? I don't know. They would have spoken in Latin. Perhaps he just knew the title and general theme of Chaucer's book; that would have been enough to suggest to him including "fame" in hi...

hi Mike, we've the phenemenon, that Aiolus is inside the Filippo Maria's order. It's curious, so it hasn't an usual explanation. I don't know, what the Milanese experts usually thought - in this case Aiolus appears in an arranged order and surely not without reason. For the Greek Aiolus - there were...

Huck, it's SO NICE to visit the site without dealing with Frames! It looks great. FRAMES are beautiful. FRAMES spare energy. FRAMES run quicker. FRAMES need much less mouse-activity. FRAMES are user-friendly, as in longer texts you don't need to search the navigation. FRAMES are an easy way to prod...

Trionfi.com refines its News system, at least we are experimenting.

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hi Mike. first, we also were puzzled about Aiolus ... then Chaucer was detected, and the whole was regarded with suspicious eyes (English, how could this be) ... but then the upright row in the last column was realised (Eros - Daphne - Aiolus - Hercules) and associated with Petrarca's chapters in Tr...

Reading Huck’s post a question came to mind: how many members here know how to play tarot? That's a good question ... :-) ... I for my part have no opportunity to play the game, but I'm experienced in the kind of game and easily learn them, cause the important tricks and the experience with it is e...

hi Mike, "Found accidentally in an old bookshop recently, do you think this is one of the earlier "altered books" around? These are sketches - very amateur but nevertheless enthusiastic and observant, made in 1935 at an exhibition in Paris. They are vignettes, with notes, of Tarot Car...

Playing with two highest trumps (or two specialised cards, which are the highest) in practical card play can have different forms. This one is from Doppelkopf. You have two identical "highest cards" (heart-10 called "Dulle") with the same value - in Doppelkopf, which is played wi...

See for instance this page - http://www.answers.com/topic/holy-roman-emperor-2 for technicalities. Scroll to the bottom to see the list of coronations - Sigismund was the first Emperor to be crowned by a Pope for over 200 years! (after Frederick II in 1220). Simple list error? Or was the pope not p...