Ross G Caldwell said:
Hi Huck,
here's where my memory screwed up. Panormita says in the description
http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/xtf/view?docId=bibit001050/bibit001050.xml
that Fortune (here conflated with Opportunity, as we later know her, with a forelock and bald behind) was followed by "six" virtues, and then proceeds to list *seven* - Hope, Faith, Charity, Fortitude, Temperance, Prudence, followed later by Justice, to emphasize her importance.
Caesar comes next, and mentions the seven virtues.
Later on, a giant tower comes surrounded by four further virtues, Magnanimitas, Constantia, Clementia, and Liberalitas.
Fame, by that name, is nowhere to be found (at least in my quick reading), but Julius Caesar (as mentioned by Burckhardt), who comes between Fortune with the virtues and the tower with four others, clearly symbolizes Fame (he is standing on a rotaing globe and declares "Behold both this changeful world and everything else unsure, except virtue." (Ecce et mundus volubilis et praeter virtutem omnia incerta).
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt (except for virtuous, recorded deeds)? is the message...
Ross
I've here a German description: Napolitans, Florentians and Katalans made the Trionfo.
Naples-part: The first part are 20 Napoletan patriziens with a baldachin and below it Alfonso himself on a chariot.
Florence part: youthful horsemen, which make some tricks with their spears, a a chariot with a Fortuna and seven (or six) virtues on horses. At the foot of Fortuna a Genius, showing, that luck can easily disappear.
As last virtue came a Justice on a chariot (likely explaining this problem with 6 or 7 virtues). And 12 Prophets. Then a lot of horses disguised as foreign nations or famous men, finally above a turning world-globe Julius Caesar, who explained to Alfonso the different allegories.
Katalan part: various Katalans on pseudo-horses, occupied with a battle-imitation with some Turks. Finally a gigantical Tower with an angel with sword protecting the door of the tower. Above 4 virtues, which sing songs for Alfonso.
Burckhardt (other source):
"Alfonso the Great, on his entrance into Naples (1443), declined the wreath of laurel, which Napoleon did not disdain to wear at his coronation in Notre-Dame. For the rest, Alfonso's procession, which passed by a breach in the wall through the city to the cathedral, was a strange mixture of antique, allegorical, and purely comic elements. The car, drawn by four white horses, on which he sat enthroned, was lofty and covered with gilding; twenty patricians carried the poles of the canopy of cloth of gold which shaded his head. The part of the procession which the Florentines then present in Naples had undertaken was composed of elegant young cavaliers, skillfully brandishing their lances, of a chariot with the figure of Fortune, and of seven Virtues on horseback. The goddess herself, in accordance with the inexorable logic of allegory to which even the painters at that time conformed, wore hair only on the front part of her head, while the back part was bald, and the genius who sat on the lower steps of the car, and who symbolized the fugitive character of fortune, had his feet immersed in a basin of water Then followed, equipped by the same Florentines, a troop of horsemen in the costumes of various nations, dressed as foreign princes and nobles, and then, crowned with laurel and standing above a revolving globe, a Julius Caesar, who explained to the king in Italian verse the meaning of the allegories, and then took his place in the procession. Sixty Florentines, all in purple and scarlet, closed this splendid display of what their home could achieve. Then a band of Catalans advanced on foot, with lay figures of horses fastened on to them before and behind, and engaged in a mock combat with a body of Turks, as though in derision of the Florentine sentimentalism. Last of all came a gigantic tower, the door guarded by an angel with a drawn sword; on it stood four Virtues, who each addressed the king with a song. The rest of the show had nothing specially characteristic about it. "
You're right, Fame is in this event only indirectly involved (by Caesar, but this might be refered to world also).
Fame is perhaps more involved in the event of 1423, when the Catalan part had a gigantcal chariot with artificial elephant, on top a castle of heaven with a chor of angels. Between the feets of the elephant a Magician, who is accompanied by 30 noble-men, disguised as Sarazens. They play a sorcery scene, with much noise and likely with fire-tricks.
They are attacked by two Napolese chariots with firework and exploding bombs, and accompanying persons, disguised as devils.
The Elephant symbolizes Fame ... but again this is weak.
Well, actually also the Aiolos appearance in the 1424/25 Michelino deck is a weak fame. Perhaps it's so, that the iconographical representation still wasn't found till 1440.
The Naples connection to Fame is clear with the Trionfi of 1475 (marriage Pesaro) and 1492, both called "Triumph of Fame". Another event from 1476 shows the "Trionfi of Petrarca", naturally also including Fame.
Back to the poem:
Quanto tuo maiestà ogn'uom prevale,
la tua alma Lucrezia in
fama avanza
ogni altra donna mai fin qui famosa
d'incredibil biltate e di
costanza
e di sublime ingegno naturale,
dove
carità, fede e speme posa,
stella radïosa
d'onestate e
clemenza,
fior di
magnificenza,
prudente, giusta, temperata e forte,
qual viva sempre fu dopo la morte
ne' gentil almi di chi ci succede,
se la matura sorte
non niega a' versi miei meritar fede.
I see three of your 4 termini on the final chariot directly given in this short piece: clemenza, magnificenza, costanze ... Liberalitas I do miss, but I see Fama in the poem. Liberalitas = Fame?
In the begin of the poem also Julius Caesar is given together with other famous men (the description of the real Trionfo is open, which other famous men were given, actually also the Greek gods might have been famous men then).
When Famawas associated with books, as you've observed elsewhere, the way from Fama to Libertas is possibly not too far.
Stella radiosa .... the Angel? Who is this Lucrezia inside this context. The normal Roman Lucrezia?