.... well, the quality is better in the original source.

Thanks Huck... (*) I guess I should check that the English translation of the original is accurate rather than poetic before attributing a slightly different angle to Temperance. It's just so good to find an English emblem book I haven't seen before, let alone one with fortunes that relate to the i...

Hi Hunk, no, I meant I have a color photo of all the subjects of Visconti cards. By the way, according to Kaplan II, I suspect I have very little chances to find this photo (if nothing changed in the meantime): the Von Bartsch cards are owned by an unknown collector and we don't even know the size ...

A page from A Collection of Emblemes Ancient and Moderne by George Wither, link first posted by Hoo on the Books of Fortunes and Dreams thread. A different slant on Temperance from the 'watering of the wine' angle. This book is an absolute tarot treasure... This is the earlier source ... Emblemata ...

Ciao omonimo :) cerco proprio quello, non un qualsiasi biscione colorato. Credo che sia l'unica carta dei Visconti di cui non ho una foto a colori... I'm looking for the color photo of the Visconti card with the snake, not any biscione in color. I think it's the ony color photo missing in my collec...

That's indeed a nice finding ...



1551 Innocentio Ringhieri ... "hundert games"

It's a common trick, not really spooky, very much people are taught this trick in their youth ...for instance me and my children. You can imitate the principle with playing cards, there are different patterns. One is 21 cards the "victim" shall choose one You count them down in 3x7 blocks ...

... no problem ... I've difficulties with this feast in Aix-de-Provence ... http://books.google.com/books?id=lk4NAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=fete-dieu+aix&source=bl&ots=qT1sJO2qqS&sig=46yRWECd1L3TRD1EUzY9TdrHhec&hl=en&ei=G2nhTP6nAYLoOYPrtdoO&sa=X&oi=book_resul...

Title page from the first Gargantua is missing in all known copies - in the only known copy to be more accurate. Hence the datation is vague. From Rabelais biographie et from references in the book itself, the publishing was dated between 1534 and 1535. Then there were five versions, the latest bei...

As far I get it, the Pantagruel is of 1532, but taken as the second book. The Gargantua is from 1534/35 and taken as the first. This second, but first text contains the games list. book 3 in 1546 book 4 in 1548 book 5 published in 1564, partly likely by a second writer The Anonymos text (Gargantua -...