https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarots_de_Mantegna
... to be rounded out and continued ...
... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself
Robinet Testard lived in
France from around 1470 to 1531-ish
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8427253m/f7.item.r=Robinet+Testard.langFR
Ovide, Héroïdes, traduction d'Octavien de Saint-Gelais Ovidius Naso, Publius (0043 av. J.-C.-0017). Auteur du texte
I’m confused … did Ovid only wrote fifteen ? so maybe Octavien de Saint-Gelais added some ?
ah !
i am mostly wrong ... he wrote fifteen ... then three pairs were added
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroides
Adding to my confusion, the BNF volume seems to be incomplete … There may be twenty-one letters but there are only nineteen illustrations.
The illustrations aren't always easy to allocate to the stories because of the variations in spelling over the last 2000 years
... no illustration of Medea ? No illustration of Sappho at the end.
Penelope writes to Ulysses ...
Phyllis writes to Semophon ...
Briseis writes to Achilles ...
Phaedra writes to Hippolytus ...
Zenone writes to Paris ...
Hipsyphile writes to Jason ...
Dido writes to Aeneas ...
Hermione ( composing her thoughts before she ) writes to Orestes ...
Deianira writes to Hercules ...
Ariadne writes to Theseus ...
Canace writes to Macareus ...
Laodamia writes to Protosilaus ...
Hypermnestra writes to Lynceus ...
Paris writes to Helen ...
... and Helen writes back to Paris
Leander sees Hero's candle after sending a message ...
... and Hero writes back to Leander
Acontius writes to Cydippe ...
... and Cydippe writes back to Acontius