.... :-) ... well, Petrarca wins a free aeroplane trip from Ganges to Thule .... the world of Italian proverbs has a progress .... https://depts.washington.edu/hrome/Authors/ninamil7/PiazzaNavonaandBerninisFourRiversFountain/245/246/nile.jpg.1 https://depts.washington.edu/hrome/Authors/ninamil7/Pia...

Rota di fortuna M. faustina toschi Faustina ne vien per cui risplende Virtu quanta altra sia dal gange al Nile , Principio ver dove mia lingua prende Novo oggetto d’amore e nuovo stile Cosi suoi begli occhi ogni vile alma accende, E fa co’l dir ogn’ aspra fiera humile. Tal che nocer non puoli cosa ...

Thank you, Gregory, for informing us of Rosanne's death two years ago. Indeed have wondered over the years where she went. She seemed interested in Tarot enough that she wouldn't just quit talking about it one day. I will always associate her name with the discovery of the monkey on the Cary Sheet M...

A unique aspect of the episcopal enthronement in Florence suggested to me why Florentines would be uniquely familiar with the mystical marriage of the bishop with his church, because it was literally enacted with a ring and a bed, and perhaps explains why a female pairing with the Pope in the triump...

Yes, I had thought so, too. I couldn't remember where I read that, so I figured I must have been mistaken. Thanks for pointing it out. But peacock is what Hibbert says. I didn't believe it, so I checked the picture. It's not ostrich feathers. They look vaguely like peacock feathers. He gives anothe...

In the examination of processions, at least some of which were called trionfi at the time (I don't know about all, before the cards and Petrarch's cycle became popular), don't forget our previous thread on the topic, 8 web-pages long, starting at https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&am...

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...

Might the peacock feather also be a dig at Cosimo, who had three peacock feathers as his personal device, seen for example emblazoned on his (or Piero's?) horse's carapace in the Gozzoli Magi fresco (p. 158 of Christopher Hibbert, The House of Medici , 1974)? They supposedly stood for the virtues C...

Juno IS the goddess of riches, among other things. See Boccaccio Genealogia IX, 1 (especially pages 361-365 of Solomon, volume 2). Boccaccio doesn't moralize the eyes as being watchful, or rather preoccupied, over wealth. I am sure I have read that elsewhere in some mythographer or other, maybe even...

Good stuff, Phaeded. As a sometime pedant, I have to point out that I used Carleton's thesis a couple of months ago in regards to supposed phoenix heraldry of Antonio della Scala - Phoenix heraldry of Antonio della Scala? https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2681 And Steve Mangan ...