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Before 1441

Playing Cards 1422 - 1441

Cultural Change 1430 - 1441

Political Situation

Bianca Maria's Visit 1440 - 1441

After 1442

New Political Change 1450

Ferrara 1441 - perhaps a deciding date

Money at the Court in Ferrara

Notes from a lost internet source (I lost the address, I can't cite it):

From a list of 22th of January 1476 it is known, that:

Sigismondo, brother of Ercole, got 2375 LM (Lira Marchesana) in one month
Messer Alberto Ramaldo, 500 LM (forgot his function)
Alberto, half-brother of Ercole, 831 LM
Scipione, nephew of Alberto, 120 LM
Polidero, nephew of Alberto, 15 LM
Members of Consiglio Segreto, 8 - 80 LM
Members of Consiglio di Giustitia, 45 LM
chancellor, main secretary Paolo Antonio Trotti, 50 LM
Messengers with horses, 20 LM
Oratori (diplomats):

at the pope: 28 LM
in Venetia and Florence: ca 40 LM
in Milano: 83 LM

All administrative functions: 1884 monthly (without Sigismondo)
Treasurers 20 LM
Technicians (architects etc.: 20 LM)
Musicians (occasionally): 26 LM
lower servants: 1 LM monthly, also low: tailors, bow shooters, transporters

Ariosto 30 years later, gets 25 LM, three horses and 2 servants. All the court are 1476 ca. 600 persons, the total expenses without Eleanora d'Aragon (ca. 1700 LM) are 9328 LM, an average of ca. 12. With 2 LM life was possible for a small man, a noble got ca. 25.

Perhaps one may assume, that the very low paid persons had other indirect salary, that is free living and no cost for food, possibly also clothing, otherwise the discrepancy between low and high income looks a little unlikely (collective meals should have been normal, otherwise the organisation would have been difficult).

A Trionfi deck produced for duke Borso causes average costs of 4-5 Lira Marchesana, as much as 1/4 of the monthly income of a nobleman. This is not cheap.

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