Thanks for the additional information, Huck. I have been revisiting my analysis of the SB Aces. I interpreted Coins and Cups as having to do with the Christian Trinity, and Swords and Batons as pertaining to categories of "Different" and "Same" in Plato's Timaeus . But if so, wha...

Besides Dionysus, another referent could be Hebe, the cupbearer of the gods (before Ganymede), who poured the drink that made the gods immortal. See my posts at http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=1959700&postcount=28 http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=1959782&postcount=29 and htt...

Your emblem image, of course, is similar to the Catelin Geoffrey Temperance image, at right below. The verse also suggests the interpretation. And I thought it was just a woman preparing to wash her hands! It is similar to a mosaic in Libya of Dionysus being poured into a cup, which there might be a...

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 posthum...

Thanks, Pen. The first link in your previous post didn't work for me; but the second did. Does it cover the sum of his observations? I notice that he has nothing on the number cards. Also, I can't get to the "tea" site for the Sola-Busca that various people, including Hurst, refer to.

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 fest...

I am loving this thread. It is so thought-provoking. I have been dying to read Hurst's notes on the SB but have not known how to access them. I still don't, even with this link. How does one go from that all inclusive page to the particular posts of Hurst's that we're interested in? Also, thanks for...

I have been reading about homoeroticism in 15th century Italy, in hopes of learning more about the conditions in which the Sola-Busca might have been conceived and received. On Venice, my main source is Guido Ruggiero's Boundaries of Eros , 1985 (in Google Books). I see that in Venice in the decades...

Sorry I am so late in replying, Huck. I had a pressing commitment, now finished. Thanks for the links--yes, nomes, of course. I should have thought of that myself. What I see from your links is that 42 is the number for Greco-Roman Egypt. When I click on the links given at the end of the Wikipedia a...

Huck wrote I didn't invent these things nor paint these images Yes, I understand. But where did the website you are citing get its information? It doesn't give footnotes. All it has is a short bibliography at the end (3 books). How much comes from those books, and how much is invented/hypothesized? ...