14-02-2026, 10:35 PM
I don't think we're disagreeing. But Northern Italy/Southern Germany are not a million miles away in this period. It's all HRE. There's diverse influences for sure. We have a notionally Arabic alphabet but we also see the same in both German and Northern Italian grimoires of the period. Likewise we have Lauberesque drawings in Venetian Manuscripts, and we have Taccola and Kyser, but we know Kyser influenced Taccola, not the other way round, which inverts the transmission path from Germany to Italy. The conclusion of which must be that it's a fully permeable membrane between the two..