Images Dated 16th August 2019

Bruzio Visconti meeting the Virtues

Bruzio Visconti or Brizio Visconti, poet and politician, son of Luchino Visconti. Lord of Lodi, d. 1356. Brutius Vicecomes (Bruzio) rides the middle horse between two knights Vigor (Bernabo Visconti) and Sensus (Franceschino de Cristiani, Pavian judge) to meet allegorical Virtues: Circumspectio, Intelligentia (with wings), Discretio with crown, and Docilitas. Bruzio Visconti, Signore di Lodi. From a manuscript codex by Bartolomeo di Bartoli. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1837

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