22-02-2026, 06:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 22-02-2026, 06:54 PM by JustAnotherTheory.)
(22-02-2026, 06:06 PM)Bernd wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well, Barbara was known for practicing astrology and alchemy, and allegedly had orgies with naked women. So it fits her much better than her daughter.
I still struggle about a context where someone had acccess to a royal library, yet wrote clumsy marginalia in provincial German, grossly misinterpreted source imagery - and depicted the (former) queen naked. If we accept the Taccola-Sigismund connection, it must have been someone from or close to the court, yet of lesser education. Probably young.
Fully agreed. But in that case, we have to answer the following questions:
- Is the marginalia in German rather from a later age, from someone trying to decrypt some sentences?
- How is it possible, that a person who grossly misinterpreted source imagery, is able to devise and handwrite a complex cypher script?