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In matters of the new findings about the terms Germini and Ganellini (one post above) Andrea Vitali helped with the following provisional translation fro the Ganellini passage of 1613:
Of special interest appears the card, at which "a Monkey is painted, dressed as a monk, preaching from a pulpit: Oh, my God, what are these? And yet the Princes use them for fun? O great sacrilege!"
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For the two Germini passages Andrea Vitali gave the two summaries:
1517
Summary:
Lorenzo de 'Medici (Duke of Urbino) had been wounded in Urbino and the fact was known. He returned to Florence in secret but people say he was dead, but “there were those who said that he had been seen playing at germini with Jacopo Salviati and his brother in law Filippo Strozzi” (Chi diceva averlo veduto giocare a Germini con Jacopo Salviati, e Filippo Strozzi, suo cognato)
1518
Summary:
The Duke of Urbino, Lorenzo, wounded in the battle of Urbino, and in December of 1518 his health deteriorated. For this reason he was in bed to rest your legs and because he grieved for French bubbles and sometimes he played at germini and ronfa.(e quivi nel letto stave alle volte a giucare a germini et a ronfa= and here in his bed sometimes he was playing at germini and ronfa).
The twice mentioned Lorenzo de Medici is the following person:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_de'_Medici,_Duke_of_Urbino
As son of Piero de Medici (himself son of the earlier famous Lorenzo de Medici) he became ruler of Florence in 1513 after the reconstitution of the Medici rule in Florence through the just elected new pope Leo X. He was then just 21 years old. In 1516 he became also ruler of Urbino by pope Leo, replacing Francesco Maria I della Rovere ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Maria_I_della_Rovere
... nephew of the earlier pope Julius II.
This activity caused the war of Urbino in 1517.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Urbino
Lorenzo de Medici married in June 1518 (5th of May) Madeleine de la Tour ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_de_La_Tour_d'Auvergne
... a relative of the French crown, and got a single daughter, who as Catherina de Medici became the famous queen of France later, the first of two Medici queens on the French throne.
Lorenzo died in 1519 cause of syphylis (May 4). Madeleine died short before (April 28), after having given birth to Catherine.
The two other mentioned persons in the documents Filippo Strozzi and Jacopo Salviati worked in 1517/18 as bankers for the tremendous money interests of pope Leo. Filippo Strozzi ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Strozzi_the_Younger
... became prisoner in the wars around Florence as leader of the opposition, when the later grande duke Cosimo I became ruler in Florence 1537. He died in prison.
His surviving sons (Piero and Leon) took refuge in France at the court of Catherine de Medici and took high positions in the current French army. A son of Piero, Filippo di Piero Strozzi, became (very likely) involved in the production of the Tarot de Paris 1559.
Note: Andrea feels not enough safe in the use of English language ... improvements are welcome.
Of special interest appears the card, at which "a Monkey is painted, dressed as a monk, preaching from a pulpit: Oh, my God, what are these? And yet the Princes use them for fun? O great sacrilege!"
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For the two Germini passages Andrea Vitali gave the two summaries:
1517
Summary:
Lorenzo de 'Medici (Duke of Urbino) had been wounded in Urbino and the fact was known. He returned to Florence in secret but people say he was dead, but “there were those who said that he had been seen playing at germini with Jacopo Salviati and his brother in law Filippo Strozzi” (Chi diceva averlo veduto giocare a Germini con Jacopo Salviati, e Filippo Strozzi, suo cognato)
1518
Summary:
The Duke of Urbino, Lorenzo, wounded in the battle of Urbino, and in December of 1518 his health deteriorated. For this reason he was in bed to rest your legs and because he grieved for French bubbles and sometimes he played at germini and ronfa.(e quivi nel letto stave alle volte a giucare a germini et a ronfa= and here in his bed sometimes he was playing at germini and ronfa).
The twice mentioned Lorenzo de Medici is the following person:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_de'_Medici,_Duke_of_Urbino
As son of Piero de Medici (himself son of the earlier famous Lorenzo de Medici) he became ruler of Florence in 1513 after the reconstitution of the Medici rule in Florence through the just elected new pope Leo X. He was then just 21 years old. In 1516 he became also ruler of Urbino by pope Leo, replacing Francesco Maria I della Rovere ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Maria_I_della_Rovere
... nephew of the earlier pope Julius II.
This activity caused the war of Urbino in 1517.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Urbino
Lorenzo de Medici married in June 1518 (5th of May) Madeleine de la Tour ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_de_La_Tour_d'Auvergne
... a relative of the French crown, and got a single daughter, who as Catherina de Medici became the famous queen of France later, the first of two Medici queens on the French throne.
Lorenzo died in 1519 cause of syphylis (May 4). Madeleine died short before (April 28), after having given birth to Catherine.
The two other mentioned persons in the documents Filippo Strozzi and Jacopo Salviati worked in 1517/18 as bankers for the tremendous money interests of pope Leo. Filippo Strozzi ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Strozzi_the_Younger
... became prisoner in the wars around Florence as leader of the opposition, when the later grande duke Cosimo I became ruler in Florence 1537. He died in prison.
His surviving sons (Piero and Leon) took refuge in France at the court of Catherine de Medici and took high positions in the current French army. A son of Piero, Filippo di Piero Strozzi, became (very likely) involved in the production of the Tarot de Paris 1559.
