Thanks Mike. Guerrini also published another article in 2006 which was in part an update of her 1986 work: "I tempi e' luoghi e l'opere leggiadre": la tradizione manoscritta della prevulgata e la fortuna dei "Trionfi" nel Quattrocento, in I luoghi dello scrivere da Francesco Petr...

Cohen says that both Pesaro mss. were made for Borso. The one I am referring to is the one now in Vienna. I still do not know why she says that the 1459 was made for Borso. You're right, she does say that; I overlooked the Borso part in her description of the ÖNB ms. I'm not sure why she wrote that...

I should perhaps also note—even though I think I have already said this before in this thread—that when I say that someone thought that "the Robertet-style Eternity looked more like Fame than Eternity", I think it is likely that the Eternity image they were looking at did not look exactly ...

I don't really want to get back into this discussion fully, as I am still nowhere near the point of being able to present my arguments in full detail. But there are a few observations that I can quickly make in reply to Mike's last post here. The ms made in Pesaro in 1459 is not the one done for Bor...

Huck, when you read anything I post, it really helps to follow the links I provide and look at what is there. That is why I provide the links, after all: because there is important information at the other end of the link. I don't just put them in because I think they look nice. In this case, the ea...

Huck, thanks for drawing our attention to this. There is a lot of interesting material there. I particularly like the transcriptions of the two poems from the Vatican library - I had made my own transcriptions already, from the images on the Vatican website, but a few lines in the Cesena poem were t...

Very sad news indeed. He did a lot of excellent work, which doesn't always seem to receive as much attention as it deserves. One of the best.

It seems to me that a second Chariot would be confusing to the players, especially if there was no clear differentiation in gender. Indeed. They would have been distinguished primarily by the attributes they were holding, attributes that would not have meant much to those who did not have an unders...

I think I'm done with this discussion now. I said at the beginning that I was doubtful of the merits of attempting to present a complex argument in an abbreviated form, without laying out all the evidence in full detail, and the responses here seem to vindicate my doubts. Ultimately I will, I hope, ...

Responding to some relevant points in the discussion that unfolded since I was last here: 1. Mike, you really need to get away from this notion that the "new world" of heaven had to be totally immobile and motionless. It is taking Petrarch's meaning far too far, and it is absurd. You seem ...