Thanks for your engagement, Nathaniel and Phaeded. Phaeded wrote, The palm frond almost always means martyrdom and I think you are essentially on the right track here - she is offering the reward, the crown of salvation, to her "children", the Faithful. The prostrate figure - labeled 'Le ...

...The Robertet is not a card, it is an image with related verses, done in France sometime after 1476 and before 1500 one of a series of six illustrating the Triumphs of Petrarch, ... Here is the Minchiate card alongside the page in the Robertet https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=3...

It seems to me that the minchiate angel is offering the viewer a choice - the arrow of death or the crown of dominion. Dominion over what, I am not sure, perhaps themselves, or over the world, no longer subject to death but one of the citizens of heaven. I do not think it is a choice of death or su...

The most playful of my ponderings is to wonder if the Abbess might have had the nickname "la papessa" sometimes. One analogy for "popular consecration" like this is the nickname "Eight Saints" for the eight officials charged to organize Florence's defense against Grego...

[1]. Phaeded: I am not clear about which crown you are talking about in the CY, as there are two of them - one in her hand and one above the scene. I am talking about the one in her hand. She seems to be offering it to someone, probably the knight below. I think the crown in the minchiate card is a...

Robertet makes Eternity female. ... Then there is the crown instead of the usual globe held by the Father or the Son. Crowns are symbols of dominion , Ziegler says. So is the globe that the Father or Son holds in the usual depiction of Eternity. There is no need to stick to a globe if another symbo...

The reference to Bonelli is: Giuseppe Bonelli, "A proposito dei beni di Beatrice Della Scala nella Calciana," Archivio Storico Lombardo XXX (serie terza, volume XIX), pp. 131-144; Franciscolus Del Maino is mentioned on page 133, and the relevant documents are partially transcribed on page...

Went to SF for my 60th and caught the Botticelli exhibit at the Legion of Honor museum there (a traditional museum on a spectacular headland/park overlooking the entrance to the bay). https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/botticelli-drawings Most of you aren't anywhere near there except for I think Mike...

From elsewhere it looks like Andreotto was Agnese's father, and died in 1429, and her brother Gaspare's running of the family bank starting in 1394 overlapped Giangaleazzo's reign (1385 – 5 September 1395), and went well into Filippo's reign. Were likely connected to the Borromeo in some way as fel...

Juno IS the goddess of riches, among other things. See Boccaccio Genealogia IX, 1 (especially pages 361-365 of Solomon, volume 2). I added thjis later, also in volume one: (e.g., Boccaccio, Gen.deo . IV.35: "...earth with its riches and kingdoms, over which Juno is preeminent." Tr. Solomo...