Not sure why you want to jump to later variants of the ur-tarot to explain the original context of Dante, but I've already proposed a very specific schematic program based on Dante - how he was used for political purposes in the 1430s in Florence (the Medici exile, followed by the Albizzi faction e...

Not sure how loose the translation is here and there is no MS folio reference/pagination, but I extrapolated that the same sign held by the king and marschalli would have the same good/evil significance, evil being the downward one (the confusing point here is none of the surviving decks show the k...

There still must have been a text that selected the themes of the sequence and on that point I still insist on Dante. Phaeded Phaeded, thanks for this, we fully agree. This is what I want to express all the time since opening the other thread "For tarot: Dante, Plato and no Fool", https:/...

I'm very happy that somebody picked up on Brunelleschi's obsession with the "architecture" of Dante. I'll post pictures of Eugenio Battisti's brief essay on the writings of Brunelleschi, since I don't want to retype it and the book is not online. Whatever he wrote or the drawings he made ...

Thanks Phaeded, I respond point by point wherever I can: I agree with this general sentiment - the opposed marschalli , both holding an upward or downward/"evil" sign – I stumble already at this point – who says that the downward sign of the inferior marshall is “evil”? JvR’s text is: Sub ...

First I will give an Addendum to my last post which I prepared, then I will read your new posts and think about them [you are too fast for me, gentlemen...]: For more information on the tetramorph where also the connection to the world card is mentioned, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetramorph ...

Reading this thread, the inspirational and very important points for me are: On Brunelleschi by Ross (thanks, Ross!): [..] and that he had been summoned to Milan twice by Filippo Maria himself, once in the early '20s, and once in the '30s, probably shortly after the consecration of the Duomo in 1436...

@Huck The German translation of the English text presented by Roger Tilley clearly presents the text in a manner, that Johannes offers "observations", not "own inventions". The Bond translation we had given. The Kopp translations of 1973 we had given also. https://forum.tarothist...

Phaeded, I answered your Is it more likely a moralizing treatise by a monk transformed playing cards or that he simply recorded what he saw? Not sure how that could have been [...] in [I follow Huck's advise to continue the discussion in this thread] You raise a very interesting question, Phaeded: [...

[I follow Huck's advise to continue the discussion in this thread] You raise a very interesting question, Phaeded: Is it more likely a moralizing treatise by a monk transformed playing cards or that he simply recorded what he saw? For me it is the former, i.e. "a moralizing treatise by a monk t...