Thanks, Huck. I had forgotten. I even translated that essay, a dozen years ago, http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=180&lng=eng. It even provides a couple of quotes, the parts about the four seasons and the four cardinal virtues in relation to the four suits. It was only pp 11-15 that I supposed ...

Here are another couple of finds by Franco, still rummaging through the Biblioteca Moreniani. The first is an erudite mock defense of playing cards. The author would seem to be a high-ranking member of an "academy," more like a social club, in Florence, a "Very Reverend" ecclesia...

From the discussion of the B series of engravings, what I found of interest is this, on p. 131: https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=3198 Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 04-20-09 HindTriumphs_162534.pdf.png The dimensions of Love are, he says on p. 133, 260x173 mm. Chastity is 257x164. Death...

And on the A series, starting with A.I.16 on one page, then Vienna on the following: Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 03-29-41 HindTriumphs_162534.pdf.png Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 03-29-58 HindTriumphs_162534.pdf.png Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 03-30-18 HindTriumphs_162534.pdf.png Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 02-1...

Here are Hind's comments on the engravings. Note that there were several versions. There is A.I.18-23, in Vienna. Hind thinks the B series, of which the first reworking (i.e. the second state) is what the British Museum has, is what corresponds to the inventory. The BM has one plate of it, he says. ...

Ross wrote, Franco's remarks about "giuocho" meaning something besides a literal "game" are correct in the case of Rosselli, at least as art historians understand it. But his new discovery of a "paio" of Petrarch's Trionfi adds another wrinkle to the question, then. Cou...

Here is Hind's appendix on the inventory (Early Italian Engravings, I'm not sure what volume): Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 01-47-50 HindEarlyItalian294-309.pdf.png Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 01-48-46 HindEarlyItalian294-309.pdf.png Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 01-50-18 HindEarlyItalian294-309.pdf.png Screens...

Yes, of course, about the 2013 discussion. I was going to give the references, but you were too quick for me. For others, if you search for "Rosselli" and then among those results "inventory", you will get 17 hits, of which the two by Ross are the most important. There is no need...

Continuation of preceding post: _______________________ 7. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gaetano-milanesi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ 8. Miscellanea fiorentina di erudizione e storia . Vol. II, N. 14, 1894, pp. 24-30 – reprinted Rome 1978. 5 https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=31...

I am now ready to post another note concerning another note of Franco's, this time about inventories relating to Petrarch, of which the most interesting lists a "paio di trionfi In charta pechora di messer franc° petrarcha" - a pack of trionfi in parchment of Messer Franco Petrarch." ...