Cerulean
If I could find one suggested correlation...
it's for a tarot as a whole of 22 majors, 16 courts and 40 minors-- each assigned a satirical verse by MM Boiardo .
I was going to say Judith for the Queen of Swords might have evoved from Matteo Maria Boiardo's satirical Tarocchi poem and courts sometime in the 1490s:
Gertrude Moakley writes that the suit sign for Boiardo’s tarot set were to be as “darts” for the suit of “love”; “vases” for “Hope”; “eyes” for “Jealousy”; and “whips” for “Fear” [p 48 of Gertrude Moakley--I'm quoting from someone else, waiting for the book].
Court cards of Boiardo’s proposed tarot
set as follows:
Suit of “Love”: Knight - Paris (“because of his love for Helen of Troy; Queen - Venus; King - Jupiter ' Page - Polyphemus (“because he loved Galatea”?)
Suit of “Hope”: Knight - Jason; Queen - Judith of Bethulia ; King - Aeneas (“because of the hope which sustained him; in his journey from Troy to Italy. Page - Horatius Cocles (“noted for his bravery”)
Suit of “Jealousy”: Knight - Turnus (“rival of Aeneas for the hand of Lavinia” ; Queen - Juno (to be shown by peacocks, ‘whose many-eyed tails are a symbol of watchful jealousy; King - Vulcan (“jealous of Mars's success with his wife, Venus”) ; Page- Hundred-eyed Argus (“for the hand of Lavinia”?)
Suit of “Fear”: Knight - Ptolemy; Queen - Andromeda ; King - Dionysius ; Page - Phineus (?) (“all unhappy victims” of the emotion fear)
P. 49, "The Tarot Cards Painted by Bonifacio Bembo..."]
it's for a tarot as a whole of 22 majors, 16 courts and 40 minors-- each assigned a satirical verse by MM Boiardo .
I was going to say Judith for the Queen of Swords might have evoved from Matteo Maria Boiardo's satirical Tarocchi poem and courts sometime in the 1490s:
Gertrude Moakley writes that the suit sign for Boiardo’s tarot set were to be as “darts” for the suit of “love”; “vases” for “Hope”; “eyes” for “Jealousy”; and “whips” for “Fear” [p 48 of Gertrude Moakley--I'm quoting from someone else, waiting for the book].
Court cards of Boiardo’s proposed tarot
set as follows:
Suit of “Love”: Knight - Paris (“because of his love for Helen of Troy; Queen - Venus; King - Jupiter ' Page - Polyphemus (“because he loved Galatea”?)
Suit of “Hope”: Knight - Jason; Queen - Judith of Bethulia ; King - Aeneas (“because of the hope which sustained him; in his journey from Troy to Italy. Page - Horatius Cocles (“noted for his bravery”)
Suit of “Jealousy”: Knight - Turnus (“rival of Aeneas for the hand of Lavinia” ; Queen - Juno (to be shown by peacocks, ‘whose many-eyed tails are a symbol of watchful jealousy; King - Vulcan (“jealous of Mars's success with his wife, Venus”) ; Page- Hundred-eyed Argus (“for the hand of Lavinia”?)
Suit of “Fear”: Knight - Ptolemy; Queen - Andromeda ; King - Dionysius ; Page - Phineus (?) (“all unhappy victims” of the emotion fear)
P. 49, "The Tarot Cards Painted by Bonifacio Bembo..."]