Cerulean
1321 was after Dante and his Divine Comedy set a sort of celestial map for thinkers and writers and artists. His second volume, Purgatory, in the last verses, showed a heavenly triumph parade where the four cardinal virtues as lovely ladies accompanied the celestial cart pulled by a griffon.
Inbetween the next examples was the Petrach's 1350 Triumph poems, after the grim Black Death plagues of 1347 and 1348. Petrach's triumph series does show a vernacular attempt to solve moral questions--his poem was about seeing triumph floats of love, chastity,death, fame, time and eternity. I found this information from the Cambridge History of Italian Literature. In the lit books that I've looked through, this vernacular poem isn't considered Petrach's greatest work.
Italy has a lot of documentation through their census, taxation history, literature, art and the Vatican archives. Still, to reseach about their gaming cards and culture takes awhile for me--I read translation or just pick up words here and there in poetic formats.
Dante's Paradiso map the heavenly spheres in a way you find mirrored in the later Mantegna cards of the mid-to-late 1400s in Fererra...and also a near cousin, in the Cary-Yale Visconti cards, the four cardinal virtues are also referenced. The Sforza-Visconti and D'Este clans throughout the 1400s had alliances, marriages and so I can see relationships between these cards. There are are also documented examples of triumph poetry and courtly schools of art that look like the cards produced in Fererra (Tura, Mantegna) and Milan (Bembo). Now the above examples came from a year or so, off and on, as I took my Dante and Renaissance classes.
I'm copying a bit of this to go with the Mantegna thread---I don't know that this is helpful to French researchers.
Mari Hoshizaki
Inbetween the next examples was the Petrach's 1350 Triumph poems, after the grim Black Death plagues of 1347 and 1348. Petrach's triumph series does show a vernacular attempt to solve moral questions--his poem was about seeing triumph floats of love, chastity,death, fame, time and eternity. I found this information from the Cambridge History of Italian Literature. In the lit books that I've looked through, this vernacular poem isn't considered Petrach's greatest work.
Italy has a lot of documentation through their census, taxation history, literature, art and the Vatican archives. Still, to reseach about their gaming cards and culture takes awhile for me--I read translation or just pick up words here and there in poetic formats.
Dante's Paradiso map the heavenly spheres in a way you find mirrored in the later Mantegna cards of the mid-to-late 1400s in Fererra...and also a near cousin, in the Cary-Yale Visconti cards, the four cardinal virtues are also referenced. The Sforza-Visconti and D'Este clans throughout the 1400s had alliances, marriages and so I can see relationships between these cards. There are are also documented examples of triumph poetry and courtly schools of art that look like the cards produced in Fererra (Tura, Mantegna) and Milan (Bembo). Now the above examples came from a year or so, off and on, as I took my Dante and Renaissance classes.
I'm copying a bit of this to go with the Mantegna thread---I don't know that this is helpful to French researchers.
Mari Hoshizaki