Huck
I've a question ...
what would a man in early 15th century perceive, when he heard the name "Delphi" ...
Delphi is somehow at the mount Parnossos.
http://www.wga.hu/art/m/mantegna/2/parnassu.jpg
Mantegna, 1497, Parnassos
http://www.allposters.de/View_HighZ...-1641-1S9GD00Z.jpg&imgwidth=670&imgheight=894
15th century bookpainting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi
Delphi lost his function as oracle in 390 AD.
The place was taken and used for living by settlers from Albanien in 14th/15th century.
The site was localized in 19th century, with the help of an earthquake it was possible to remove the village and start excarvations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Helicon
Mount Helicon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parnassos
Parnassos
It seems to me, as if Parnassos and Helicon (place of Hesiod) were occasionally mixed, although this are different locations.
"Helicon is the name of a mountain and a range of mountains in Boeotia in central Greece. It is a continuation of the Parnassus range of mountains. In the beginning of his Theogony, Hesiod refers to the muses of Mt. Helicon, which was considered by the Greeks to be the Muses' home.
On Mt. Helicon there was a temple and statue-filled grove. Near it were the fountains of Hippocrene and Aganippe that had been created, according to legend, by the winged horse Pegasus.
Pausanias said Mt. Helicon was the most fertile in Greece."
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.greeklandscapes.com/images/maps/greecemap/gr_tb_02.jpg
see the mountains "Ellkonas" and "Parnassos"
Archeological interests developed slowly in 15th century ... naturally first for Italian objects.
So .. actually one should assume, that a person in early 15th century couldn't identify a natural location with the word "Delphi", though with some eagerness they could identify the different mountains (and likely would realise, that it's difficult to climb Greek mountains).
It's strange ... Petrarca clearly showed signs of Apollo interests, ca. 1341, when crowned as poetus laureatus.
Apollo was the god of the plague. The plague arrived 1348 and stayed till 1450. Laura, Petrarca's female idol, died with it (good Friday 1348) ... according to Petrarca, but we don't know, if Laura (Laura = Daphne = Petrarca's laurel as poetus laureatus) was fiction or real. So Petrarca was frustrated ... actually one should assume, that Petrarca has expected different things from his cooperation with Apollo in 1341.
Nonetheless Petrarca started his poem Trionfi (1355 - 1374), which stayed a little unfinished. ... and in its center was the old love Laura.
It's said, that the Visconti then got a familiary Apollo-fever, at least they used the phoinix as a heraldic design. Apollo came back, when in ca. 1424/25 or little earlier Filippo Maria Visconti commissioned the oldest Trionfi cards, the Michelino deck (though likely Filippo Maria didn't use the Trionfi name). The deck was focused on Daphne ... (= Laura) and Apollo of course.
Short before (1421) somebody imported the Manilius-poem from Germany, an action, which should have reached Filippo Maria Visconti as an information. . The Manilius-poem refered to an astrology, which used the 12 Olympian gods and much later duke Borso of Ferrara (also involved in Trionfi card productions) realised on the base of the poem the famous paintings in Palzzo Schifanoia (1469).
Filippo Maria Visconti much earlier used also the 12 Olympian gods system, although modified and not identical to the Manilius system. One should know, that the Visconti genealogy knew some of the gods as real ancestors of the family and that it was the same painter, Michelino da Beszzo, which painted the genealogy (1403) and the Michelino deck (ca. 1424/25).
In another world outside of Milan the Greek scholar Chrysoloras started to teach the Greek language in Florence. In his didactical considerations he thought it a good idea to focus the learning energies on the biographies of Plutarch, cause Plutarch presented Roman and Greek hero figures ... as the Roman biographies were well known by his pupils, the learning of Greek was much easier for his pupils. Chrysoloras indeed also spend some time in Milan and was present, when the Visconti genealogy was commissioned ... but the reigning duke Giangaleazzo died (1402) and the political situation in Milan started to become instabile. ... Chrysolares left and 10-11 years old young Filippo Maria Visconti started to suffer then.
Guarino (later teacher in Ferrara) started to become the leading translator of the many biographies of Plutarch.
Was he aware, that Plutarch once had been a priest in Delphi? Interesting question ... Is that explorable? Where does the informations of Plutarch's own life come from?
what would a man in early 15th century perceive, when he heard the name "Delphi" ...
Delphi is somehow at the mount Parnossos.
http://www.wga.hu/art/m/mantegna/2/parnassu.jpg
Mantegna, 1497, Parnassos
http://www.allposters.de/View_HighZ...-1641-1S9GD00Z.jpg&imgwidth=670&imgheight=894
15th century bookpainting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi
Delphi lost his function as oracle in 390 AD.
The place was taken and used for living by settlers from Albanien in 14th/15th century.
The site was localized in 19th century, with the help of an earthquake it was possible to remove the village and start excarvations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Helicon
Mount Helicon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parnassos
Parnassos
It seems to me, as if Parnassos and Helicon (place of Hesiod) were occasionally mixed, although this are different locations.
"Helicon is the name of a mountain and a range of mountains in Boeotia in central Greece. It is a continuation of the Parnassus range of mountains. In the beginning of his Theogony, Hesiod refers to the muses of Mt. Helicon, which was considered by the Greeks to be the Muses' home.
On Mt. Helicon there was a temple and statue-filled grove. Near it were the fountains of Hippocrene and Aganippe that had been created, according to legend, by the winged horse Pegasus.
Pausanias said Mt. Helicon was the most fertile in Greece."
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.greeklandscapes.com/images/maps/greecemap/gr_tb_02.jpg
see the mountains "Ellkonas" and "Parnassos"
Archeological interests developed slowly in 15th century ... naturally first for Italian objects.
So .. actually one should assume, that a person in early 15th century couldn't identify a natural location with the word "Delphi", though with some eagerness they could identify the different mountains (and likely would realise, that it's difficult to climb Greek mountains).
It's strange ... Petrarca clearly showed signs of Apollo interests, ca. 1341, when crowned as poetus laureatus.
Apollo was the god of the plague. The plague arrived 1348 and stayed till 1450. Laura, Petrarca's female idol, died with it (good Friday 1348) ... according to Petrarca, but we don't know, if Laura (Laura = Daphne = Petrarca's laurel as poetus laureatus) was fiction or real. So Petrarca was frustrated ... actually one should assume, that Petrarca has expected different things from his cooperation with Apollo in 1341.
Nonetheless Petrarca started his poem Trionfi (1355 - 1374), which stayed a little unfinished. ... and in its center was the old love Laura.
It's said, that the Visconti then got a familiary Apollo-fever, at least they used the phoinix as a heraldic design. Apollo came back, when in ca. 1424/25 or little earlier Filippo Maria Visconti commissioned the oldest Trionfi cards, the Michelino deck (though likely Filippo Maria didn't use the Trionfi name). The deck was focused on Daphne ... (= Laura) and Apollo of course.
Short before (1421) somebody imported the Manilius-poem from Germany, an action, which should have reached Filippo Maria Visconti as an information. . The Manilius-poem refered to an astrology, which used the 12 Olympian gods and much later duke Borso of Ferrara (also involved in Trionfi card productions) realised on the base of the poem the famous paintings in Palzzo Schifanoia (1469).
Filippo Maria Visconti much earlier used also the 12 Olympian gods system, although modified and not identical to the Manilius system. One should know, that the Visconti genealogy knew some of the gods as real ancestors of the family and that it was the same painter, Michelino da Beszzo, which painted the genealogy (1403) and the Michelino deck (ca. 1424/25).
In another world outside of Milan the Greek scholar Chrysoloras started to teach the Greek language in Florence. In his didactical considerations he thought it a good idea to focus the learning energies on the biographies of Plutarch, cause Plutarch presented Roman and Greek hero figures ... as the Roman biographies were well known by his pupils, the learning of Greek was much easier for his pupils. Chrysoloras indeed also spend some time in Milan and was present, when the Visconti genealogy was commissioned ... but the reigning duke Giangaleazzo died (1402) and the political situation in Milan started to become instabile. ... Chrysolares left and 10-11 years old young Filippo Maria Visconti started to suffer then.
Guarino (later teacher in Ferrara) started to become the leading translator of the many biographies of Plutarch.
Was he aware, that Plutarch once had been a priest in Delphi? Interesting question ... Is that explorable? Where does the informations of Plutarch's own life come from?