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Essi rappresentano la precarietà della condizione umana spiegata dai motti “regno, regnavi, sum sine regno, regnabo” cioè “sto regnando, ho regnato, sono senza regno, regnerò” scritti su cartigli che connotano ciascun personaggio.
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In the 15th-century Visconti-Sforza Tarot, the Popess appears as a female figure wearing a monk’s habit; she holds in her right hand the pastoral staff with crucifix, and in her left, the Book of Wisdom (the Bible or the Gospels). On her head she wears the papal tiara. The iconographic origins of this picture are to be found among the personifications of the highest moral and religious virtues, for example, the
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