24-06-2021, 06:38 PM
I have run into further information about other historical members of the Fieschi family, but didn't have a reason to connect it with the VMs.
As I see it, it is the red hat and the blue stripes that link to the period of Catholic history under Pope Innocent IV. And in the VMs, it is the discovery, recognition, whatever you want to call it - of that link with history that is important. In a text of strange and exotic content, having some sort of historical grounding is a surprising discovery.
Blue stripes and and a red hat on a single VMs nymph is about as clear as is visually possible. Yet the whole manner of presentation is obfuscated rather than exhibitory. The use of the Fieschi information is not so much topical - about the Fieschi family - as it is fortuitously functional. It concerns physical facts and traditional events rather than anything too ideological. Fieschi heraldry is plain and basic enough to be hidden, it is early and valid, not later and added, and it is paired in the line of papal succession.
The purpose is to establish a historical grounding, intentionally disguised, but traditionally validated. The apparent intent is to pass the significance of that historical validation on to the physically connected, (also paired) Stolfi's markers, and thus to the associated circular bands of text - ostensibly for the purpose of communication - but, hey, who knows?
As I see it, it is the red hat and the blue stripes that link to the period of Catholic history under Pope Innocent IV. And in the VMs, it is the discovery, recognition, whatever you want to call it - of that link with history that is important. In a text of strange and exotic content, having some sort of historical grounding is a surprising discovery.
Blue stripes and and a red hat on a single VMs nymph is about as clear as is visually possible. Yet the whole manner of presentation is obfuscated rather than exhibitory. The use of the Fieschi information is not so much topical - about the Fieschi family - as it is fortuitously functional. It concerns physical facts and traditional events rather than anything too ideological. Fieschi heraldry is plain and basic enough to be hidden, it is early and valid, not later and added, and it is paired in the line of papal succession.
The purpose is to establish a historical grounding, intentionally disguised, but traditionally validated. The apparent intent is to pass the significance of that historical validation on to the physically connected, (also paired) Stolfi's markers, and thus to the associated circular bands of text - ostensibly for the purpose of communication - but, hey, who knows?