I think I get it now.
It could be.......
The accursed day- the ignoble. Saturday. Saturn is seen as the enemy of the Sun. From a Christian point of view The Sun is Christ- and what the ancients called Shamah= Saturn is the second Sun, the Helium Sun- the bad Dude.
Evidence, also cited by Ben-Yehuda, comes from Tacitus, a Roman historian. Writing in the late first or early second century C.E., Tacitus tells us that the Jews rest every seventh day, and let the earth lie fallow every seventh year, in honor of Saturn, the seventh and highest of the heavenly bodies. Although he does not say that the Jews worship Saturn, Tacitus does state that it is considered by them to be the planet with the most powerful influence on human life.
Neh says a Christian- Sunday is the Lord's Day.
So really it now makes sense to me why this fellow we call the Hermit (in the Visconti) is maybe Jewish. Shabtai/Shamah/Saturn. There is an old saying about Jewish people and a pun on the word Dies Sacrum or Holy Day
Auri sacra fames=The cursed hunger for gold. I am sad now. There I was thinking that maybe the Visconti was in praise of their discreet(Aquarian trait) friends The Jewish Pawnbroker instead it was once again about "my God is bigger than your God" which is of course a Renaissance Cosmology.
But the book is very interesting......I feel it has given me an understanding of Tarot that I did not quite have before.
~Rosanne
Edited to add from Medieval Astrology: Saturn is reputed hurtfull, and the most obnoxious and malevolent of all the Planets, by reason he thus opposeth the Luminaries that are the Lamps of light, life and nutrition.