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Re: Petrarca Trionfi poem motifs in early Trionfi decks

Thanks for the reference on Latin elegaic couplets. About them I now know at least that I know nothing, which is at least better than just knowing nothing. Nathaniel wrote, suppeditare is actually another bit of non-classical Latin in the quatrains. The first meaning given for this verb in The Dicti...

Re: Petrarca Trionfi poem motifs in early Trionfi decks

Thanks, Ross. I was wondering what to do with the ablative. Just to complicate things - or maybe simplify in the end - there are also Jean Molinet's quatrains. For Love, here is Molinet's quatrain: Ecce coronati telo sternuntur amoris, Cum Jove Neptunus, cum Jove Pluto subit; Lora voluptati, reges, ...

Re: Petrarca Trionfi poem motifs in early Trionfi decks

Since Douglas says that Francois's rondeaux are simply paraphrases of his father's huitains, perhaps they are worth translating. Here is Douglas's transcriptions and what I come up with, with the major variants in brackets and leaving in French where I am afraid even to speculate. This is by no mean...

Re: "virtual study day" of the Bembo decks now on You-Tube

This doesn't seem worth a thread by itself, but a nice follow-up on the technical aspects of the cards, notably the Modrone, currently at Yale University, is at https://library.yale.edu/news/cards-library-partners-work-together-solve-mysteries-rare-tarot-deck. Among other things we see: Six faint wa...

Re: Petrarca Trionfi poem motifs in early Trionfi decks

Excellent, guys. From Ross I get the answers I was asking for and more. Many thanks. Thanks also to Nathaniel for drawing our attention to the sources, and for what he makes of them. From the quotations from Douglas/Zsuppan that Ross gave, it appears that her reason for 1476 is that it was in this y...

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