Here finally is what I hope is an adequate translation of Franco's essay on the hapless Signore Domenico Aldini (https://www.naibi.net/A/ALDINI.pdf). Franco has been on his trail quite a while, first mentioning him in an essay written in 1990, at the end of an article in English published in The Pla...

About Huck's post previously: be advised not to take the machine translation very seriously, especially for the parts in Italian. The machines are not yet as good as the people they mimic when it comes to older Italian, especially in correspondence by people of varying educational attainments and no...

In this post I am going over again Death and Fame. Below are the Robertet illustrations (I have deleted the poems above and below) https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=3001 24461DeathFameDET.jpg Regarding the Robertet illustrator's presentation of Death as the three Fates rather than ...

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 also be...

I have a few reflections on the essay just posted. I want to start at the end and work backwards. Franco wrote: At the limit, again for someone who does not require traditional artistic contributions to the design - which will presumably immediately turn away all potentially interested artists from ...

Here is another of Franco's recent essays, posted by him on Dec. 2, 2023: Minchiate, Reflections on Design (Minchiate, Reflessioni sul Design, https://www.naibi.net/A/DESMIN.pdf.) I found it surprisingly thought-provoking. But I will save my thoughts til later. The footnotes are at the bottom of eac...

In the preceding, I have corrected "ha ne," to be translated as "has of it," meaning "of the amount owed." Here again is the original of the second case: https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=2986 Screenshot 2023-12-21 at 23-34-51 NAIBI1418.pdf.png But now...

You're right on both counts, Huck. In an email, Franco confirms that interpretation of "L" and "S", which was always the most logical one. On your first point, to prevent confusion in English, it would be better "of the Filippo Strozzi branch and his sons Lorenzo and Giovan ...

With a little imagination, that was fairly readable English, Huck. Just a few things. (1) "Tommaso's newspaper by Luigi Ridolfi and fellow beaters" should be "journal" (for giornale) of Tommaso di Luigi Ridolfi (just one person) and company, gold-beaters"; (2) "of the F...

Good start. Just needed some polishing. I have put a few of my own comments, always pertaining to the translation, in brackets. A few things: a merceria is a shop principally devoted to fabrics and sewing supplies, but also things in paper; in the UK, it is called a "haberdashery", in the ...