Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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Cap.7 Searching for "clues"

When a clue is only a clue? For
Jessica Fletcher , star of the television series "Murder, She Wrote " there seems to rule:

is only a clue a clue ... two clues are a strange coincidence ... but three clues are more than sufficient to put us on the trail of the guilty. We share the


painting of Benozzo Gozzoli seen in the previous post, we shift the focus in the lower left, only a couple of heads from the bearded face of Giorgio Gemisto Plethon .
In which direction is Gemisto that many of the characters seem to turn our gaze, stands the figure of a young nobleman identified Sigismondo Malatesta .
The same Sigismondo Malatesta who is appointed in an official documents surfaced in the history of the Tarot .. . In 1451
Bianca Maria Visconti husband wrote to Francesco Sforza to send Sigismondo Malatesta a bunch of " those cards of triumphs that if they are in Cremona . Between 1450 and 1452 to the Treasurer of Duke's Antonio Cremona Trecchi Sforza commissioned " cards Triumph for zugare , de beautiful and ornate as you can with our arms ducal insignia et .

Reconstructing a history of so much time away, with very little documentation available to become a truly formidable.
For my part I have an idea, which originated from the assumption that
"the scheme " must have inspired a person endowed with intelligence and knowledge out of the ordinary and the reading of several books on medieval history, I came to suspect that this person could be George Gemisto .

First because reported by the press describes as the greatest of the philosophers of that time, so inspired by Cosimo de Medici to found a university in his honor, even considered the equal of Plato from which indeed takes the pseudonym Plethon .
Most scholars attribute to him, just the fact that it was a great inspiration to many Renaissance humanists, the merit of being the precursor of the Italian Renaissance.


Second
is because the place and time in which appeared the first deck of Triumphs with features that still survive today.
Plethon
arrived in Italy, more precisely in Ferrara in 1438, scholars put the final settlement with the 22 tarot cards that correspond to modern Marseilles between 1441 - 51 by painters of northern Italy, ( the deck Visconti-Sforza attributed to Bonifacio Bembo ) right after the passage of Gemisto in Italy. (coincidence?)
Another coincidence: it seems that Plethon not returned to Constantinople with the Byzantine delegation in 1439, when the council ended, but remained in Italy probably host of Sigismondo Malatesta for another two years. I want to point out that this may be more plausible, Malatesta was related with Paleologo , emperors of Byzantium, through his cousin Cleopas, who was to Mistra student the same Gemisto . It seems that the same Sigismondo became a devout disciple of Gemisto and the best evidence is the rebuilding of the church of San Francesco a Rimin i, che dal papa Pio II fu definita Tempio Pagano e scomunicata. Altra cosa a conferma di ciò, Sigismondo prima di morire intraprese una crociata in Morea con l'intento di riportare i resti di Pletone , per poi deporli in un sarcofago centrale all' esterno dello Temple itself. (not as few connections)
Third because reading the last few things the thought of Gemisto ( the discourse on the differences between Plato and Aristotle, above all and the Treaty of virtue ) I find them very relevant to the schema. Finally, trivially, because I found other candidates in the age and in designated places could fit this role better. Nevertheless
rimango aperto alla possibilità di sbagliarmi, anche se, più continuo la ricerca e più emergano indizi puntuali e precisi a conferma della giusta direzione.
Quella che inizialmente sembrava una fantasia, sorretta da un'impalcatura un po' vacillante, è diventata incredibilmente stabile nel confronto con la scoperta di Silvia Ronchey . L'enigma di Piero libro pubblicato nel 2006 per le edizioni Bur is an impeccable historical research, arising from the interpretation of an enigmatic picture of Piero della Francesca . The Ronchey , in his book reconstructs completely the scenario that frames with the history of Tarot. More precisely, in that context, the Dr . ssa Ronchey sees a political act to save what's left of the great Byzantine Empire fell under the Turkish May 29, 1453 (audio link).
In the Tarot, as well, see the construction of a path of self-knowledge, today would call the New Age path 's lighting can be seen the same project described by Ronchey , where the last card " the world" is portrayed an ideal world, as he said Gemisto , founded on truth and not on membership of a dogmatic creed.

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