hi Otello, In the Cary-Yale-reconstruction it was assumed, that the 7 virtues + the card Love represented the the row of the 8 pawns of Chess. From this it has to be assumed, that the 8 pawns in a Florentine Tarot also would present 7 virtues + Love, but instead of 3 theological virtues they incorpo...

On the issue of the number of cards originally in the "Charles VI" set: they are numbered, and the person numbering them had before him either 21 or 22 cards. They were numbered after the painting of the cards, but how long after or precisely when is anybody's guess. We have beside the So...

:D Well, for sure I'm not pretending my ownership of the 5x14 theory; having an idea is very different from verifing a theory, looking for evidence, etc. (I imagine you know better than me... On my side, I'm not professionally involved in history of art, for me it's just a hobby) and I was very hap...

Good; thanks. And Gianfrancesco was probably a die-hard Savonorolan, since Ercole had to dissociate himself from him publicly. S. A. Farmer,the translator-editor of the 1998 edition of Giovanni Pico's 900 Theses , thinks that Gianfrancesco even edited passage in his publication of Giovanni's posthu...

Ah, I understand ... yeah, this c. 1980 was early, and before Trionfi.com's time, which goes back to some research in May 1989. Occasionally we meet somebody, who had independently a similar idea about it, the earliest we know of is Roland Decker. http://trionfi.com/0/f/10/ And I agree, that a Bridg...

Well, I'm back from the page on trionfi.com about the Visconti snake and I have two questions for Huck: - I agree the snake may be a replacement for the Devil, (actually, it is the main reason I'm interested in this card) but I get lost when you assign to the "Ur-Tarot" the numbers of the...

Thanks for your comments, Huck. They are helpful, but so far haven't led to what I needed to know. It is possible that 1491 was a period of lessening intolerance toward homoeroticism. I just can't find any verification of that. The existence of festivals doesn't tell me anything. Repression and fes...

Lorredan wrote: If I remember correctly- it had something to do with a pregnant D'Este woman who was ill or afraid. I have a hazy memory of the Vouivre polluting the lake with it's breath.

A pregnant d'Este woman? Which woman?
Something similar appeared with Theolinda ... according a legend, of course.

Murder on Pico de Mirandola and Poliziano ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1577958/Medici-philosophers-mystery-death-is-solved.html ... thanks, this is an improvement, that some of these expected murder-cases becomes cleared. Likely there will be more cases in the future. I have been re...

There are lots of epigones, if somebody made something original ... :-) ... it's like Temperance, a piece of content is filled in another cup and modified. .. :-) ... around 2003 we (Trionfi.com) invented the terminus "Michelino deck" ... meanwhile Google knows 135.000 answers for the sear...