In the city Marostica (close to Vicenza) exists a modern chess festival with living persons as chess figures. The story of it is related to a possibly legendary event in the year 1454. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marostica ... the city https://www.marosticascacchi.it/en/#1 ... Start of the English...

Thanks, that is a big improvement. "Alifante" ("lo standardo del alifante") is the expression, which is used in 1409 by the father of Sigismondo Pandolfo. "Alfil" is the common impression for the chessfigure of the Elefant (at the place of the Europeon bishop), which wa...

Still in Work We had some discussion about the very early time of the Trionfi decks in the thread "What are the documents for Marziano's dates?" ... It started here .... 07 Jan 2023, #546 https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=25619#p25619 ... general summary about the early time o...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Pylos_Combat_Agate.jpg/300px-Pylos_Combat_Agate.jpg This astonishing piece of art (detected in the recent years) has an age of about 3500 years and a length of 3,4 cm (that's smaller as the picture). Large picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

https://media.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/mortoneden/109/image00020.jpg Matteo de Pasti for Sigismondo Malatesta. The year 1446 is clear: M CCCC XLVI. from https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=4229&lot=20 https://muenzenwoche.de/images/3359_dc33678f.jpg https://muenzenwoche.de/images/33...

Wikipedia has ... a History of Elephants in Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_elephants_in_Europe As far I can see it, there are no elephants in the 3 chapters of the Trionfo Fame poem of Petrarca ... https://petrarch.petersadlon.com/read_trionfi.html?page=IV-I.txt https://petrarch.pet...

MikeH posted in 2013 in the thread "How Petrarca became famous" ... https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=13334#p13334 Here is the letter of Matteo de' Pasti to Piero de' Medici, 1441, in English (from Chambers, Patrons and Artists in the Italian Renaissance, 1971, pp. 94-95): Adm...

If I'm responsible for this "January," then I apologize. I was mistaken. .... no problem ... :-) ... I remembered the January 1441 ... but I forgot the source. and I became used to transport this item. From the Venice calendar system with a start of the year at 1st of March 12 dates betwe...

I started to research, when I got this "January 1441" for the Matteo de Pasti letter in my head. I found a first in this forum for 2012, but this wasn't the original, but just already manifested opinion. I searched in Tarotforum.net and found this ... https://www.tarotforum.net/threads/fam...

As far we know it, Matteo is the first Trionfi motifs painter. The age of Matteo is of importance. Somewhere I saw a c1420 for his birth, your text has at page 14/15 the suggestion of c1412 (with doubts), based on a testament of his father in 1437. According this suspicion Matteo would have been c29...