The elephant is a motif in the Malatesta heraldry, but we don't know, since when. Pandolfo III Malatesta, Sigismondo's father, already used the elephant emblem - the "elefante crestato" (crested elephant) - in his heraldry since at least 1409. This is according to this page, "L’arald...

We've really wandered far from Marziano's dates in this thread. But the search function works well, everything can be mixed if you put unique or rare keywords in your posts. Huck, you can find out everything that you need to know about Matteo and Pisanello and the situation of 1438-1441 in the paper...

The same Filippo Dompieri wrote a paper with Pablo Aparicio Durán in English about Matteo De' Pasti and Pisanello https://www.academia.edu/16176637/Matteo_de_Pasti_and_Pisanello_artistical_clues_for_an_allegiance On pages 7-8 they summarize the political situation of 1438-1441 for the two artists - ...

I would exspect, that somewhere in the jungle of Gallica should be a place for this important text arranged by Matteo de Pasti. But it seems, that the BNF regards it as a later text than 1441. No word about the English language suspicions and Matteo de Pasti. They have not put it online yet - https...

The author seems to have the opinion, that Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, italien 1471 "is the project on which Matteo de Pasti was working on in 1441. I followed this lead and got this disappointing result: https://petrarch.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php/item/1240 Perhaps you've better ways...

If I'm responsible for this "January," then I apologize. I was mistaken.

On pages 30-31 he talks about the letter and the date, and suggests it was written in the fall of 1441 - Il fatto che la lettera rechi l’anno 1441 induce a pensare che tale interpretazione sia plausibile, poiché proprio il 9 agosto di quello stesso, come già ricordato in precedenza, la Serenissima c...

Here is a book about Matteo De' Pasti, by Filippo Dompieri, 2012 https://www.academia.edu/26739522/Matteo_De_Pasti_miniatore_medaglista_architetto The Regesto on pages 191-206 contains all of the primary documentation of his life, including on pages 198-199 the letter from Leon Battista Alberti (the...

Yes it was clearly Vandi's misunderstanding.

Recently Michael and me attempted to find out, if the biographies of Bruni (about Dante and Petrarca in 1434-36) and of Manetti (about Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio in 1440) contain a hint on the work "Trionfi" by Petrarca. The research had a negative result, we were not able to find some...