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Re: Literary source for the trumps: Dante’s Paradiso

Huck, As far as online Dante resources you can’t beat the Princeton Dante Project: http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/ It gives you numbered lines in both Italian and English side by side as well as a supplemental help bar to the left, of which the most important is the commentary. Confused by an...

Re: Literary source for the trumps: Dante’s Paradiso

This was of March 16 in 1450 in Ferrara. The deck was unusually cheap for Ferrarese conditions. Sforza had taken Milan end of February, the triumphal festivities in Milan were around March 25. Leonello was present in Milan at this occasion (I forgot, where I've seen this note). It seems likely, tha...

Re: Literary source for trumps: Dante’s Paradiso

Well, that's a lot ... As abridged as this explanation is (only a monograph could do it proper justice – and I’ve certainly no time for that at the moment), it is overly lengthy for a message board post, so it is broken up into three major parts ... You could just add the link: http://forum.tarothi...

Re: Literary source for trumps: Dante’s Paradiso

PART II The Role of Francesco Filelfo All of this would of course require a humanist all too familiar with not only Padua, the idiosyncrasies in Dante (e.g. the Theological Virtues “marred”), but a pronounced interest in astrology. Enter Filelfo. Filelfo attended university in Padua so he would have...

Literary source for the trumps: Dante’s Paradiso

Please refer to this schemtic of my view of the genesis of tarot (14 trumps of the Florentine Anghiari deck, closely followed by the nearly identical CY deck) and its secondary development into the final format of tarot we know (the PMB, 21 + Fool), for the ensuing discussion: http://forum.tarothist...

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