mikeh wrote: 14 Dec 2024, 15:14
From my limited knowledge of Italian, his examples in French apply also to Italian.

Alessandro Parenti, in "UN PAIO DI NOZZE, 2015" suspects that the common usage in French, Italian & English originated in French usage.

A very special case is that of a paio di scacchi [ scacchi = chess, chess pieces, chess set]. Michael Howard has drawn attention to the expression un paio di scacchi included in dictionaries as an example of cases in which the term paio could also be applied to objects composed of a number of parts...

Also in French, e.g., from Le Tresor des deux Langues espagnolle et françoise, Volume 2, By César Oudin 1645 Paire de cartes, baraja de naypes And from "Les Édicts et ordonnances des rois de France depuis Louis VI,..." Volume 3 By Antoine Fontanon 1611 "Fermiers qui feront tenus leur ...

I had not known a wedding reception could be a "paio", too. Unfortunately, none of the dictionaries I've seen actually give literary examples of these usages, outside of cards. If you know of any, they would be welcome. Treccani says simply wedding, ceremony or wedding party, with an exam...

65 paia di carte da giuchare del dona 17 paia di carte di Meo di Tingho meçane 2 paia di trionfi g° da Giovanni 10 paia di trionfi piccoli g° 11 paia di carte meçane da g° 5 paia di carte piccole d.g° 12 d. di carte picole rimbocchiate da giuchare 3 paia di carte g° doppie del dona 1 cassetta di pi...

From the trilingual Hokham Bible, c 1330 London - with text in Anglo-Norman, Middle English & Latin:

The Devil and Christ:


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A Krampus like devil at the Chapel of the White Penitents, La Tour-sur-Tinée, 1492: https://paulsmit.smugmug.com/Features/Europe/France/Chapels-of-Southern-Alps/Chapelle-la-tour-sur-tinee https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=3379 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapelle_des_P%C3%A9niten...

Thanks Steve. That article by Negri is from 2018 and he is very definite in his information, so the manuscript must be in the San Bernardino library (the "Fondazione Biblioteca San Bernardino"). It is in the LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS SAN BERNARDINO LIBRARY FOUNDATION here: ELENCO DEI MANOSCRITT...

I can stop waiting for the Biblioteca Comunale to digitize it. Maybe the other ms mentioned? "Dell’operetta di Leonardo Colombino esistono un altro testimone manoscritto, risalente ai primi anni Venti dell’Ottocento, parte della raccolta del barone Antonio Mazzetti e con essa confuito alla Bib...

According to Guiseppe Sava, professor at the University of Trento, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, in his monograph "Flemish Tapestries of the Sixteenth Century in the Verses of Leonardo Colombino: Astrology and Cosmography in the Rooms of Bernardo Cles, in «Studi Trentini Arte», 93, 2014, ...