Visconti Sforza - Seeing the Money in Trump #1

Rosanne

kwaw said:
Perhaps our poet introducing the series is a tutor, and is lettering littles balls of broken dough/loaf/cake with the alphabet with a dribble of honey for ink, so that learning may be sweet on the tongues of his charges. The act of digestion, of taking something into oneself, was believed to aid memorisation, sweets also connected learning with pleasure and play, rather than a chore; in keeping with humanist principles of education of the period. There is also a magical aspect of course, still retained in the practice of writing affirmations, blessings, messages on cakes and making wishes over them; also the aspect of lottery type divination (as per finding a hidden object such as a coin in a cake).

Lucid indeed!
Pretium Laborum Non Vile (Not a bad reward for labour)

Well so some have said but is this a proven? Or remains a suggestion?

I think it remains a suggestion- but many say in printed word that it is a Visconti deck for his daughter.

A practice now more commonly symbolised by the act of bride and groom being the first to cut the cake together? What do you suggest in 'retaliation' for that, a stabbing

mutual rituals are acceptable- slapping your wife on the head with an oven baked loaf is a little one sided neh? Maybe a ritual of a knee in the groin would suffice? Tit for Tat or should I say Thwack for Smack?

Another example of the symbolism of cake, as the ending of virginity and beginning of a marriage... (and the ensuing 'multiplication', fertility and fecundity being symbolised by the division of the cake).

Too true......but then again Love is a fair garden, but marriage a nettle cake.
Ahh well be it cake or hat at least we agree tis a pen in his hand.

~Rosanne