Huck
At
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/plivs10.txt
are the biographies of Plutarch, in which he described 24 pairs of men, each time a Roman hero with a Greek (in one pair 2 Roman with 2 Greek). From one pair, Scipio - Epamoneindas, it's said, that it belonged to the original series ... so perhaps there were once 25 pairs with 52 men.
The construction, as it is now, is said to have been finished in Latin translation in 1462 .... after the asttempt started ca. 1400.
THESEUS - ROMULUS - COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS
LYCURGUS - NUMA POMPILIUS - COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS
SOLON - POPLICOLA - COMPARISON OF POPLICOLA WITH SOLON
THEMISTOCLES - CAMILLUS
PERICLES - FABIUS - COMPARISON OF PERICLES WITH FABIUS
ALCIBIADES - CORIOLANUS - COMPARISON OF ALCIBIADES WITH CORIOLANUS
TIMOLEON - AEMILIUS PAULUS - COMPARISON OF TIMOLEON WITH AEMILIUS PAULUS
PELOPIDAS - MARCELLUS - COMPARISION OF PELOPIDAS WITH MARCELLUS
ARISTIDES - MARCUS CATO - COMPARISON OF ARISTIDES WITH MARCUS CATO.
PHILOPOEMEN - FLAMININUS - COMPARISON OF PHILOPOEMEN WITH FLAMININUS
PYRRHUS - CAIUS MARIUS
LYSANDER - SYLLA - COMPARISON OF LYSANDER WITH SYLLA
CIMON - LUCULLUS - COMPARISON OF LUCULLUS WITH CIMON
NICIAS - CRASSUS - COMPARISON OF CRASSUS WITH NICIAS
SERTORIUS - EUMENES - COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES
AGESILAUS - POMPEY - COMPARISON OF POMPEY AND AGESILAUS
ALEXANDER - CAESAR
PHOCION - CATO THE YOUNGER
AGIS - CLEOMENES - TIBERIUS GRACCHUS - CAIUS GRACCHUS - COMPARISON OF TIBERIUS AND CAIUS GRACCHUS WITH AGIS AND CLEOMENES
DEMOSTHENES - CICERO - COMPARISON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO
DEMETRIUS - ANTONY - COMPARISON OF DEMETRIUS AND ANTONY
DION - MARCUS BRUTUS - COMPARISON OF DION AND BRUTUS
ARATUS - ARTAXERXES
GALBA - OTHO
Epamoneindas - Scipio (missing), some comparisons possibly also missing. Aratus, Artaxeres, Galba and Otho are perceived by some as single biographies, so that there are in this case 22 pairs, 1 double pair, 4 single biographies and one missing pair.
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Guarino da Verona was strongly involved in the translation attempt in the early time ... the following pages (in German) gives a view on the early development.
http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/SekLit/PADEplutarch.HTM
http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/SekLit/PADEplutarchHO.htm
see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch
http://trionfi.com/0/d/21/
Guarino became an important, influential man in Ferrara and he was still important at the court, when in 1441/1442 the first notes about Trionfi cards appeared:
http://trionfi.com/0/e/00b/
... and http://trionfi.com/0/d/
http://trionfi.com/0/e/01/
http://trionfi.com/0/e/02/
Now there are now just 2 very special Trionfi decks of a later time, the Boiardo Tarocchi poem and the Sola Busca Tarocchi ... both have the quality, that they likely are also from Ferrara (the Boiardo Tarocchi for sure, and the Sola Busca is suspected to be either Venetian or Ferrarese) and both have the quality, that their hero-figures are organized in pairs ... similar to the pair model in the Plutarch text. The Boiardo Tarocchi poem alternates men and women, creating 1-2, 3-4, etc. in pairs and the Sola-Busca-Tarocchi alternates the left-right orientation of the figures (once detected by Fool's Fool here at aeclectic, in the case I remember correctly), again in 1-2, 3-4 etc.
http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/solabusca/index.html
http://trionfi.com/0/h/ .... for Boiardo
... with a special view on the system of Boiardo
http://www.geocities.com/autorbis/boiardo.html
Well, it looks, as if the Boiardo and Sola Busca compositions took - by the influence of Plutarch/Guarino - a small detail from Plutarch and transformed it in a model of Tarot ... somewhat strange Tarots of course.
Why Plutarch took possibly 25 pairs with 52 persons? I think the week was invented not long before Plutarch, perhaps Plutarch had an interest to reach the number 52 for the weeks in a year? In the same way he reached the number number 50 (2x25) ... which always was an attractive number.
Actually I don't know for sure, if Scipio / Epamomeindos (a Thebean general from Theben in Greece in ca. 400 BC, who did win the battle of Leuctra against Sparta) was an intended pair ... but the German Wikipedia mentioned it.
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/plivs10.txt
are the biographies of Plutarch, in which he described 24 pairs of men, each time a Roman hero with a Greek (in one pair 2 Roman with 2 Greek). From one pair, Scipio - Epamoneindas, it's said, that it belonged to the original series ... so perhaps there were once 25 pairs with 52 men.
The construction, as it is now, is said to have been finished in Latin translation in 1462 .... after the asttempt started ca. 1400.
THESEUS - ROMULUS - COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS
LYCURGUS - NUMA POMPILIUS - COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS
SOLON - POPLICOLA - COMPARISON OF POPLICOLA WITH SOLON
THEMISTOCLES - CAMILLUS
PERICLES - FABIUS - COMPARISON OF PERICLES WITH FABIUS
ALCIBIADES - CORIOLANUS - COMPARISON OF ALCIBIADES WITH CORIOLANUS
TIMOLEON - AEMILIUS PAULUS - COMPARISON OF TIMOLEON WITH AEMILIUS PAULUS
PELOPIDAS - MARCELLUS - COMPARISION OF PELOPIDAS WITH MARCELLUS
ARISTIDES - MARCUS CATO - COMPARISON OF ARISTIDES WITH MARCUS CATO.
PHILOPOEMEN - FLAMININUS - COMPARISON OF PHILOPOEMEN WITH FLAMININUS
PYRRHUS - CAIUS MARIUS
LYSANDER - SYLLA - COMPARISON OF LYSANDER WITH SYLLA
CIMON - LUCULLUS - COMPARISON OF LUCULLUS WITH CIMON
NICIAS - CRASSUS - COMPARISON OF CRASSUS WITH NICIAS
SERTORIUS - EUMENES - COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES
AGESILAUS - POMPEY - COMPARISON OF POMPEY AND AGESILAUS
ALEXANDER - CAESAR
PHOCION - CATO THE YOUNGER
AGIS - CLEOMENES - TIBERIUS GRACCHUS - CAIUS GRACCHUS - COMPARISON OF TIBERIUS AND CAIUS GRACCHUS WITH AGIS AND CLEOMENES
DEMOSTHENES - CICERO - COMPARISON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO
DEMETRIUS - ANTONY - COMPARISON OF DEMETRIUS AND ANTONY
DION - MARCUS BRUTUS - COMPARISON OF DION AND BRUTUS
ARATUS - ARTAXERXES
GALBA - OTHO
Epamoneindas - Scipio (missing), some comparisons possibly also missing. Aratus, Artaxeres, Galba and Otho are perceived by some as single biographies, so that there are in this case 22 pairs, 1 double pair, 4 single biographies and one missing pair.
####
Guarino da Verona was strongly involved in the translation attempt in the early time ... the following pages (in German) gives a view on the early development.
http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/SekLit/PADEplutarch.HTM
http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/SekLit/PADEplutarchHO.htm
see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch
http://trionfi.com/0/d/21/
Guarino became an important, influential man in Ferrara and he was still important at the court, when in 1441/1442 the first notes about Trionfi cards appeared:
http://trionfi.com/0/e/00b/
... and http://trionfi.com/0/d/
http://trionfi.com/0/e/01/
http://trionfi.com/0/e/02/
Now there are now just 2 very special Trionfi decks of a later time, the Boiardo Tarocchi poem and the Sola Busca Tarocchi ... both have the quality, that they likely are also from Ferrara (the Boiardo Tarocchi for sure, and the Sola Busca is suspected to be either Venetian or Ferrarese) and both have the quality, that their hero-figures are organized in pairs ... similar to the pair model in the Plutarch text. The Boiardo Tarocchi poem alternates men and women, creating 1-2, 3-4, etc. in pairs and the Sola-Busca-Tarocchi alternates the left-right orientation of the figures (once detected by Fool's Fool here at aeclectic, in the case I remember correctly), again in 1-2, 3-4 etc.
http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/solabusca/index.html
http://trionfi.com/0/h/ .... for Boiardo
... with a special view on the system of Boiardo
http://www.geocities.com/autorbis/boiardo.html
Well, it looks, as if the Boiardo and Sola Busca compositions took - by the influence of Plutarch/Guarino - a small detail from Plutarch and transformed it in a model of Tarot ... somewhat strange Tarots of course.
Why Plutarch took possibly 25 pairs with 52 persons? I think the week was invented not long before Plutarch, perhaps Plutarch had an interest to reach the number 52 for the weeks in a year? In the same way he reached the number number 50 (2x25) ... which always was an attractive number.
Actually I don't know for sure, if Scipio / Epamomeindos (a Thebean general from Theben in Greece in ca. 400 BC, who did win the battle of Leuctra against Sparta) was an intended pair ... but the German Wikipedia mentioned it.