Ludovico Lazzarelli: Fasti ... Research to Mantegna Tarocchi

<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0" > <tr> <td valign="middle" width="60"><center><a href="http://autorbis.net" target="_blank"><img src="http://trionfi.com/00/kldreieck2.jpg" width="36" height="31" border="0" alt="autorbis.net"></a></center></td> <td valign="middle" width="120"><a href="http://trionfi.com" target="_blank"><font size="5" face="Garamond, Verdana"><b><center><i> Trionfi </i></center></b></font></a></td> <td valign="middle"> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td><a name="a"><b><font size="3" color="#0033ff" face="Verdana, Arial Narrow">    A</font></b></a><a href="http://autorbis.net" target="_blank"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial Narrow">UTORBIS.net </font></a> - <a href="http://trionfi.com" target="_blank"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial Narrow">TRIONFI.com </font></a> </td> <td align="right"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial Narrow">created 2003 - 2006       </td> </tr></table><hr size="1" width="90%"> <table width="100%"><tr><td rowspan="2" width="30%" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#dddddd"> <b><font size="+1">Mantegna Tarocchi - Research Collection</font><br><br> Mantegna Tarocchi Pictures<ul> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/mantegna/" target="_top">Mantegna Tarocchi Pictures / <br> E-series, S-Series, Ladenspelder, Dürer, Lazzarelli, Modern</a> </ul><br> <b> Material about earlier researches<br> <ul> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/14/">Early: Lanzi, Zani, Duchesne</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/15/">Brockhaus (in development)<br> - "made by the pope"</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/31/">Romain Merlin, 1859<br> - "E-series was an album"</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/32/">Emile Galichon 1861 <br>- "they are not playing cards"</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/16/">Burlington Magazine, 1933<br>- to Angelo Parrasio</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/17/">Hind's error<br> - our Lazzarelli Hypothesis</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/18/">Hind's final suggestion<br>- Mantegna Tarocchi engravers</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/19/">Hind's list</a><br><br> </ul> Lazzarelli Hypothesis <ul> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/01/">Lazzarelli's Life</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/02/">Lazzarelli's scriptures</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/03/">Lazzarelli 1466</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/04/" target="_top">Pirckheimer - to 1466</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/05/t1.php" target="_blank">Pope Sixtus IV. / pictures</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/06/" target="_top">Parallels to Urbino-manuscript</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/07/">Fasti - the calendar</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/08/">Material to Eastern 1484 or 1485</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/09/">Trithemius about Faust and Mercurio</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/10/">Nuremberg 1493</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/20/">Lazzarelli / sources</a><br><br> </Ul> <center><hr width="80%"></center><br><br> Beggar development (Misero) <ul> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/">Lucian, Momus, Alberti, Diogenes</a><br><br> <ul> Artes Liberales <UL> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/72/">Artes Liberales 1425 - 1450</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/76/">Gregor Reisch, 1508 - 1517</a> <br><br></UL Muses Development<ul> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/d/55/">Music in Ferrara</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/d/551/">Added: Music in Ferrara</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/d/56/">Artists active in the Studiolo</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/11/">Muses Row / Lazzarelli 1471 </a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/12/">Muses Row / Gaffurio 1494</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/13/">Muses Row / Ficino 1469</a><br><br> </ul> Malatesta's Contribution<ul> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/61/">Malatesta - Start</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/62/">Malatesta family (1)</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/63/">Malatesta family (2)</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/64/">Malatesta family (3)</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/68/">Duccio at the<br>Tempio Malatestiana</a> <li><a href="http://trionfi.com/0/m/69/t1.php" target="_top">Malatesta Links</a> </ul> </b> </ul></td><td height="50" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#dddddd"> Mantegna Tarocchi </td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <h1>Ludovico Lazzarelli's text from 1477 (or 1480 - 1485) (?)<br><font size="4">- Fasti christianae religionis (description)</font></h1> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <B>The following is a commentary to an article of Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (<a href="http://webtext.library.yale.edu/beinflat/pre1600.MS391.htm" target="_blank">source, see complete article</a>). </B> The commenting text is written in <b>bold</b>, specific important informations are given in <font color="red">red.</font> <p>The text refers to <b>MS 391 Italy, s. XV^^ex, Ludovico Lazzarelli:, <i>Fasti christianae religionis, </i></b>a later edition of the Fasti , which - according to the Beinecke report - was written 1481 - 1485, but it might be suspected, that the work on it already started 1477. The text contains worthful informations about "poetical friends" of Lazzarelli, whose "Lazzarelli's praising poems" appeared as an addendum in the manuscript. By this we know, who were this friends and from their identity it seems obvious, that Lazzarelli was a well known person in the Accademia Romana. </p> <p>The Fasti present Lazzarelli's attempt to establish a calendar, which united Christian and Pagan festivities during the year. </p> <hr width="90%"> <p> .....<br> <br> 3. ff. 7r-42rLodouici Lazarelli Septempedani Poetae Christiani Ad Pios Ac Inuictos Principes Ferdinandum De Aragonia Siciliae Regem Eiusque Primogenitum Alphonsum Calabriae Ducem Fastorum Christianae Religionis Liber Primus. O bruta mens curis vanos depone labores/ Et tibi nunc subeant que meliora uides/...Dixerit et primi consumpta parte laboris/ Me laetum linquens Pieris alma volat.<br> <br> Books 1-3 on methods of counting time, moveable feasts, the ages of the world, the Jewish patriarchs, popes <font color="red">(the latest, Paul II, 1464-71)</font>, etc.<br> <br> <b>Personal Comment: Sixtus IV (1471 - 1484) is still living, so it is normal, that Lazzarelli didn't include him. </b><br> <br> 4. ff. 42v-44vHi sunt menses in quibus Christianae religionis mobilia festa cadunt descripti secundum formam anni <font color="red">1476</font>... [f. 43:] Describuntur in his mensibus exempli gratia festa mobilia iuxta usum ecclesie colore rubeo iuxta decreta patrum colore nigro uelut in anno <font color="red">1477</font> contigerit [with calendar of moveable feasts for November-June].<br> <br> <b>Personal Comment: According to this the suspected production date for Lazzarelli's text should be 1477 (or little later), however, in the later comment of the text the date 1481 - 1485 is noted.</b><br> <br> .....<br> <br> 7. ff. 243r-246r [<b>Thirteen poems by others in honor of Lazarelli:</b>]<br> <br> </p> <ul> <li><b><font color="red">Fabritius Varaneus</font>:</b> Nunc celebrare facit consumpti nomen homeri/ Ilias aeneis uirgiliumque refert/...Altius extollent tanto te laude minores/ Materia quanto clarius extat opus. [8 verses]. <br><b>The poet is identified as Fabrizius Varano or Fabritius Varaneus or Fabrizio Varano - bishop of Camerino (+ 1513) </b> <li><b><font color="red">Platyn</font>:</b> Nunc liquido apparet sententia uera platonis/ Alternas rerum iam remeare uices...Hunc mage commendat sed Christi uerior aetas/ Et scriptum uere religionis opus.[12 verses]; <br><b>the poet is identified as the well known Platina, librarian of the Vatican (+ 1482)</b> <li><b><font color="red">Sulpitius Verulanus</font>:</b> O cui caelesti conflagrat pectus amore/ Et qui cum signis annua festa canis/...Mistica non uulgo sic tu sanctissime uates/ Vnica Piceni fama perennis agri. [6 verses]. <br><b>Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli (in Campania), a well known grammarian</b>. <li><b>Idem.</b> Loris aetherei tonantis actus/ Missis prodigijs iocisque uatum/...Hoc uerum est sapere haud labore uano/ Tot nugas aperire fabularum. [8 verses]; <li><b><font color="red">Paulus Marsus</font>:</b> Sic uicina mihi quamuis Nasonis alumni/ Natalis tellus dux sit et ille mihi/...Si caneretis idem veterumque abscederet error/ Equatum parili lance sederet onus. [16 verses] <br><b>Paolo Marsi, well known poet</b> <li><b><font color="red">Astreus:</font></b> Quid proceres populis tribuit quibus ampla regendis/ Sceptra deus largas quiue tenetis opes/...At tibi si desint nunc dona solubilis evi/ Praemia perpetui te lodouice manent. [16 verses]; <br><b>P. Astreus da Perugia</b> <li>Ex <b><font color="red">C. Laurentij Eustothij</font></b> silua qua plurimi recentiores poetae laudantur recitata romae in Symposio domini Francisci Diedi oratoris ueneti ad Sixtum iiii^^m Pontificem Maximum. Sed mens expectat uates seque inserit ultro/ Lazarellus inops fastos namque ipse per omnes/...Ad tua iam Brenti proauus cui caerula uentit/ Equor in adriacum turbatis flumina lymphis. [38 verses]; <br>C. Laurentius Eustothius <li><b><font color="red">Lippus</font>:</b> Hec uates nostri modo suscipe pignus amoris/ Carmina si nostrum pignore pectus eget/...Duremus tamen his etiam finem afferet aetas/ Saepe redit pulsa nube serena dies. [28 verses]; <br>Lippus / Lorenzo de' Lippi from Colle near Florence <li><b><font color="red">Sinthius</font>:</b> Maxima iuliacis creuere uolumina sacris/ Multaque telchinum mystica sacra notant/...Auguror a Sixto dabitur tibi mitra bicuspis/ Et tua nec fugiet plectra secundus honor. 20 verses]; <br><b>Sinthius / Pietro Leoni Cinzio from Ceneda in the province of Treviso </b> <li><b><font color="red">Pamphilus</font>:</b> Temporis o nostri uates clarissime carmen/ Hoc nostrum expleto perlege iudicio/...Hinc tibi fama decus nummi noua gloria surget / Sic tu defunctus nomine uiuus eris. [10 verses] <br><b>Pamphilus / wrote an epitaph on Aesop published in Rome 1475 - a riddle is around his identity</b> <li><b><font color="red">Macharius Camers</font></b> eques et Poeta. Clara nouis caelo properat septempeda fastis/ Aurea dum festos iungit ad astra dies/ Irrita cum causis valeant tua tempora sulmo/ Editur aeternae relligionis [sic] opus. [4 verses, complete here] <br>Macharius Camers <li><b>Fabritius Varaneus Presul camerin[us?]:</b> Qui ueteres adamas tamen relegisque poetas/ Vatibus ingenium credis abesse nouis/...Vincere materia non inficiabere nostrum/ Et rerum et serie carminis ire pares. [14 verses]; <br><b>Already mentioned above</b> <li><b><font color="red">Io. Georgius Cassianus</font></b> Quondam iuliaco suffusi flamine uates/ Non nisi quod sacrum est explicuere pii/... Sic natale solum ciue hoc Septempeda gaude/ Huius et exemplo quisque poeta mere [20 verses]. <br><b>Iohannes Georgius Cassianus</b> <br> <br> </ul> <b>The analysing researcher of the article adds:</b><br><br> Eleven poets are represented; most of those identified in Cosenza are associated with the Accademia Pomponiana in Rome in the 1480's; they are: Fabrizio Varano, bishop of Camerino, fl. 1503-13; Bartolomeo Scacchi Platina, historian of the papacy, 1421-81; Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli (in Campania), grammarian, fl. s. xv^^ex; Paolo Marsi, poet, 1440-84; P. Astreus da Perugia, fl. s. xv^^ex; "Laurentius Eustothius's" poem recited in Rome before Sixtus IV (1471-84); Lorenzo de' Lippi from Colle, near Florence, fl. s. xv^^ex; Pietro Leoni Cinzio from Ceneda in the province of Treviso, fl. s. xv; a "Pamphilus" wrote an epitaph on Aesop published in Rome 1475. All but the 38 verses by Laurentius Eustothius were published from this manuscript by G. F. Lancellotti, L. Lazzarelli poetae laureati Bombyx... (St. Jesi, 1765).<br><br> .... <b>Later is added</b><br><br> Produced for Ferdinand of Aragon, King of Naples (arms on f. 7r: argent, a cross gules; type 2 in T. de Marinis, op. cit., v. 2, pl. A); illuminated perhaps in Northeast Italy according to A. C. de la Mare, although attribution to a specific artist or locale has proven difficult (see above). <font color="red">The text of the Fasti was begun by Lazarelli in 1480, and completed in 1485</font> (f. 230r: "Si seriem annorum diuinae prolis ab ortu/ Nunc cupis ad nostros lector habere dies/ Mille quatringentis iunge octoginta sciesque/ Tempore in hoc fastis imposuisse mouerim [?]/ Quinque prius sed nostra manus iam cepat annis/ Scribere..."). This copy was therefore begun between 1485 and 1494, the year of Ferdinand's death, and probably closer to 1494; several miniatures were left incomplete, presumably when the news of Ferdinand's death was announced. The planned date of completion was possibly 1495, since the entry in the calendar for Rosh Hashana ("Festum Hebreorum quod dicitur rosc Hasana" on f.237v) is on 1 September, and occurred on that date in 1495. <li > </td> <td width="290" valign = "top"> <center> <br> <img src="../../../mantegna/42.jpg" alt="" height="400" width="240" border="0"><br> <br> <p></p> </td> </tr> </table></td></tr></table> <hr><br><br> <center><b><font size="1">Trionfi.com </b>has its focus on Tarot History and especially the origin of Tarot in 15th century, also the representation of about 100 000 Tarot and other playing cards in the Tarot Museum. <br><b>The chapter "Mantegna Tarocchi"</b> presents specific material to the socalled "Mantegna Tarocchi" - it's likely not produced by Andrea Mantegna, the famous painter. We present a specific hypothesis, by us called "Lazzarelli hypothesis", which contradicts common opinions about the objects, 50 copperplate engravings, which are sorted in a 5x10-scheme and of which not a single playing card deck of the early time has survived, but a lot of "normal" copperplate engravings (general opinion assumes, that they were never polaying cards in the early time). Common opinion usually says, based on the representation and arguments of Arthur M. Hind in the year 1938, that this composition was manufactured around 1465 ... we contradict and assume, that it was produced, after Ludovico Lazzarelli found some pictures in a Venetian bookstore and composed out of them 27 illuminations accompanying a manuscript. 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