hm ... do you know this?

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=427&p=5401&hilit=+surprize#p5401

http://www.icpal.beniculturali.it/esito ... afico.html

I notice Huck is ignoring me. You're safer that way Huck, I might subject you to my opinion on the Trojan War if you aren't careful. You think of that animal farm with Ulysses as fox and Penelope as Duck ? Beware, maybe Morgante would have done a job there, collecting Greek and Trojan helmets like ...

Very interesting stuff, Huck, and perhaps good clues to understanding the pictures on the Sola-Busca trumps, if the Boiardo poem and the SB are really connected. Not that I have any idea what the clues mean, in the context of the SB... ... :-) I think, that a structural nearness of both objects (Bo...

translation of mid-fifteenth century anonymous poem Italian court of Ferrara: It seems that the angel, star, sun, and moon, Hardly possible, that this is from "mid-fifteenth century" ... :-), should be an "error in the system" ... printing error, earlier error, lay-out error, tr...

I think, that Morgante took his name from Morgan Le Fay ... associating in a funny way some Arthurian stuff inside the Charlemain story. Pulci talked in his later letters (since 1466 or 67) to Lorenzo a lot about spirits and had magical ideas. He was accused to be a kabbalist by Matteo Franco (1474)...

... .-) ... I was still editing the post, but was detracted. So I post the observation here, but it belongs to the earlier post .... As above shown, in the Sola Busca Tarocchi the Nr. 6 is an exception , as it is turned to the front (instead turned to the left). In the Boiardo Tarocchi the trump 6 i...

I am now going to see what happens when I extend my discussion beyond the numbers 1-10 to include the cards numbered 11-14 in the Sola-Busca, in each suit. I am referring to the court cards, Pages through Kings. Unlike most decks, the numbers are actually on the cards. For the Knights, Queens, and ...

... In the case of the Sola-Busca, Zucker says that at least two people were involved in designing the picture cards (as opposed to the "numerical cards") Indeed the names of the characters and the images to which they apply give the impression of having been devised independently by two ...

Generally they had Greek Mythology as a favored topic, and there were giants, for instance ... Well, as you know, that's a cyclops. Not a giant :p ... Yes, there were giants in Greek mythology, of course, but I think Pulci's giant [I begin to understand this fool genitive :) ] derives of medieval g...

There are frogs. http://a-tarot.eu/p/jan-10/frogs.jpg http://a-tarot.eu/p/jan-10/frogs-2.jpg This both are considered to belong together, and it's speculated, that was a game with 16 suits. They are thought to be from begin 16th century. The next is also seen in the context (socalled Eselskopf-Karte...