Trithemius about Faust and Mercurio - 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>Trithemius on Faust and Mercurio</h1> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><b>Benedek Lang: The Krakow readers of Hermes</b>, in <i>Hermetism From Late Antiquity to Humanism</i>, ed. Paolo Lucentini et al, 2003 <p></p> <p> "...Johannes Virdung de Hassfurt was in correspondence with Johannes Trithemius, to whom he apparently wrote about magical issues. As Virdung had the text of the Liber runarum copied by his own hands, this intellectual contact can provide an explanation regarding Trithemius' source when he condemned the Liber de compositione nominum atque characterum malignorum spirituum that is, the text on the magical use of runes. In a letter written to Trithemius, Virdung inquired about another practitioner of magic, Georgius Sabellicus. His letter is not extant, but we have the addressee's critical answer, in which he calls 'Magister Sabellicus Faustus iunior" a charlatan and impostor. Faustus - writes Trithemius - dared to call himself the foremost of the necromancers, and he even composed a calling card in order to send it to the important personalities of his time: "Magister Georgius Sabellicus Faustus iunior, fons necromanticorum, astrologus, magus secundus chyromanticus agromanticus pyromanticus in hydra arte secundus". Trithemius further suggests that Faustus is not only an unstable character and a vagabond, but also an active admirer of young boys. These words have enjoyed great scholarly attention, because this is the first mentioning of the historical Faust. Trithemius mentions Virdung's name once more, when he describes the arrival of the magician Johannes Mercurius (another charlatan, in his view) to Lyons, and his success at the French royal court. In these lines, Virdung appears as a "mathematician of the County Palatine, who is living today agreeably at Budoris with his prince Ludwig'. The foolishness and arrogance of Mercurius is not less than that of Faustus: he wishes to be called Mercury, he, his wife and his children are clothed in linen, and he wears iron chains around his neck. He claims not only to possess all the science, mystery and arcana of the ancient sages but also to surpass them. The parallel of the descriptions of these two magicians and the common hatred Trithemius expresses when writing about them are manifest. It belongs to the background of this attitude that Trithemius himself was accused of practicing magic as a result of a confidential letter written by him and read by hostile eyes instead of the actual addressee. As a consequence of this accident, Trithemius spent the rest of his life in defending himself against hostile rumors. His low opinion of Faustus and Mercurius should be situated in this context where it appears as a pure and well-known argumentative technique: 'what I do is serious philosophy, what you do is foolish magic" <br> </p> <br> <li><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15062a.htm" target="_blank">Trithemius (Biography)<br></a> <li><a href="http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/pommeren/Kryptologie/Klassisch/2_Polyalph/Renaissance.html" target="_blank">Trithemius invented Cryptography</a> <li><a href="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/everbrn.html" target="_blank">Everburning lights of Trithemius</a> </td> <td align="rigth" valign="top"> <center> <img src="http://trionfi.com/0/g/p/trithemi.gif" alt="" height="230" width="345" border="0"> <p><b>Johannes Trithemius</b> <a href="http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/%7edempe/schuelerpr_neu/trithemi.htm" target="_blank">(source)</a></p> </center> </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. Then the final redaction would have been surely after 1470 ... for special reasons we suggest a date around 1475.<br> The Mantegna Tarocchi is extant in two different versions, one is called E-series and normally assumed to be the older, the other is called S-series. <br> Author: when not otherwise specified, autorbis. Copyright: trionfi.com. 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