Biographical and Autobiographical Writings , text and translation by Martin McLaughlin https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292680 The works collected in Biographical and Autobiographical Writings reflect Alberti’s lived experiences and his interests in the genre. This volume include...

To the above can be added Perini's c. 1407 description of the same, showing the Palio process remained largely unchanged until after 1454: On a beautiful triumphal car, [no Italian provided here, but must be the same as Dati's carretta triunfale ] guarded by a lion on each corner, painted with a pa...

This is an example of how the game got simpler over time. The whole bit about points from rounds (Ch XII) got dropped from the game, I think. At least I don't see it at pagat.com, and I'm not sure if it's in Pissari. I had second thoughts about my argument on the bottom of p. 4 of this thread, whic...

Here's a translation of the first 20 chapters of Pedini's transcription of the rules he found. Just the translation, done by ChatGPT, which doesn't understand all technical terms but is consistent and therefore workable. Chapters XI and XII seem to be the relevant chapters for scoring points and rou...

Dummett and McLeod explain Pisarri's counting rule as follows, in A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack , page 261 note 6: "Note that, if the numbering were carried on to the top, the highest trump, the Angel, would only receive the number 20: the Bagattino or Begato is to be considered...

Further on "triumphal chariots," in his invective against Lorenzo Valla in 1451-1452, Poggio uses the metaphor of a triumph of folly in Valla's honor, and incidentally remarks on a Florentine custom that is otherwise recorded only later in the century, that of a "triumphal chariot (cu...

I miss in the description the appearance of chariots, which in later documents defintely play a larger role, at least in the 1450s. Is this a result (or a reason) of the success of Petrarca's Trionfi poem and the following Trionfi fashion? Already in 1901 Werner Weisbach thought that trionfi-proces...

An interesting description from, as you say, c1420 of the San Giovanni festival in Florence. I miss in the description the appearance of chariots, which in later documents defintely play a larger role, at least in the 1450s. Is this a result (or a reason) of the success of Petrarca's Trionfi poem a...

Ah, I just saw that you had posted on Girolamo here yesterday, Huck. Sorry I missed it.

I answered Mike's post with the notification.

That is very sad news to wake up to. Thanks for informing us, Mike. Girolamo was a member here, and posted occasionally. I had the the good fortune to meet him at the IPCS convention in Ravenna in 2007. In our email correspondence I had expressed interest in his book Il tarocchino bolognese (Forni, ...