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Cette enluminure provient d'une lettre de brevet octroyée à István Máriássy par le roi Vladislas II de Bohême et de Hongrie. Elle représente les armoiries de la famille noble hongroise Máriássy et est datée du 29 février 1504.

Le personnage central, vêtu d'une armure noire, incarne un soldat de la célèbre Armée noire de Hongrie (Fekete sereg), la redoutable armée permanente de mercenaires fondée par le roi Matthias Corvin au XVe siècle.

Alano di Castiglione, Il Duca Regnante di Messina e Il Patriarcato Dinastico e Attuale di Casa Castiglione.” One of the nominal, feudal vassals to "Il Imperatore-Eletto dell'Impero dell’Umanità Secundo” or “The Emperor-Elect of The Empire of Mankind Secundus” officially seated at “Nymphenburg,” the provincial capital of “Des Reichstaat” or “Der Reichsdomäne” and the ancestral seat of power of “Des Kaiserliche Haushalt” or “The Imperial Household.” “Der Kaiserliche Haushalt” essentially being the “hereditary” or otherwise the “preferential” candidates for the official elections for the title of "Il Imperatore-Eletto dell'Umanità Secundo,” as well as the direct descendants of Prinz Heinrich Von Nymphenburg, the first, crowned and anointed, Imperator of “Il Impero dell’Umanità Secundo’” to be officially crowned and anointed by Archpatriarch Demetrius IV, “The 100th Bishop of Romulus” and “The Ecclesiastical Patriarch of The Conservative Church of The New Gods.” Alano di Castiglione is one of the feudal, hereditary, and dynastic “Imperial Princeps” or “Imperial Magnates” from the “ Frivolo” or “Southern Imperial” cultural and linguistic hemisphere of “Il Impero dell’Umanità Proprio” or “The Empire of Mankind Proper” geographically located within “La Valle Olympiana” or “The Olympian Mountain Valley” within the southern, lesser hemisphere of The Empire of Mankind.

“Il Ducato di Messina“ or “The Duchy of Messina” as the hereditary state of “Casa Castiglione” or “House Castiglione” roughly corresponds to the lands of “Classical Mycenae,” the constituent heartlands of “The Mycenean Civilization” during the bygone epoch of “Classical Antiquity,” "The Age of Heroes," or "The Age of Mythology" within the canon histories of “The Civilized World.” “The Civilized World” according to both the ecclesiastical and the monastic, clerical administration of The Conservative Church of The New Gods traditionally and officially housed and headquartered within The Holy Sept at Classical Romulus, Cosmopoleis, the historic capital, civilizational kernel, and titular namesake to both The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Republic and “The Empire of Mankind Primus” that once dominated the geographic majority of “The Civilized World” and beyond. As well as “The Civilized World” according to the nonconformist preachers of the multitude, or the plethora of “Reformed” and “Dissenter” state churches of The New Gods based on the theological treatises and the religious discourses preached and proselytized by Karl von Luxembourg, Ph.D, and Cassyon Dufresne, respectively. "The Luxembourgian Reformation" and "The Dissenter Theology" being two primary, alternative movements to theologically reforming the religious establishment of, and the institutions of organized religion within The Conservative Church of The New Gods. It has been universally accepted by both the scholastic, academic communities officially sponsored by the ecclesiastical patronage of The Conservative Church of The New Gods, as well as the scholastic, academic communities officially sponsored by the secular, royal and aristocratic patronage of The Civilized World’s hereditary, dynastic, royal and princely houses, that “The Mycenean Civilization” autochthonous to “Classical Mycenae,” or modern day “Il Ducato di Messina” is the first, oldest, and arguably the single most prolific Classical Civilization to come from “The Civilized World.” Geopolitically divided into a multitude, or a plethora of hundreds of tiny city-states known as “poleis” in the form of “Monarkhos” or “petty kingdoms” ruled by hereditary and elected kings known as “Tyranos” or “Basileus,” as well as “Aristokratos” or “oligarchical, noble republics” ruled by official, state councils consisting of representatives of the most prominent hereditary, dynastic houses of landed aristocrats and nobles. The “poleis” of Classical Mycenae would collectively establish a significant colonial presence throughout the lands of “Megale Mycenae" or "Mycenae Occidentalis,” or the modern day “Westerlande” under the mercantile, republican rule of the merchant princes and censors-elect of “Die Vereinten Gilden.” As well as a significant colonial presence on the northern and western coastlines of modern day “Le Royaume d’Aquitaine.”

Confederated under the elected suzerainty of “Philodoros II of Nikomedaiea,” the hereditary Basileus of the peripheral, Mycenean Tribal Monarkhos of “Nikomedeia” as “the igumen” or “the hegemon” of the Nikomedeian-led “League of Galedon.” All of the poleis of Classical Mycenae and Megale Mycenae united against the common threat of the enormous Dravidian Empire largely based on the southern hemisphere of the modern day “Al-Khalifat Al-Khashabar” or "The Caliphate of Khashabar." Both the Nikomedeian Empire built by Philodoros II of Nikomedeia's son and heir-apparent "Alexios the Conqueror" and his “League of Galedon,” as well as the so-called “Nikomedeian Successor Kingdoms” officially founded by his “Diadochi” or his aristocratic and noble generals and household retainers after the untimely passing away of Alexios the Conqueror, would begin the so-called “Eirene Mycenaeca” or “Mycenean Golden Age” of Classical Civilization that was characterized and defined, in equal measure, by the widespread proliferation and the growth of Classical Mycenean culture, mythological religion, and civilization throughout the historic lands of The Former Dravidian Empire and “The Civilized World.” The material, intellectual, and social culture, mythological religion, traditions, and customs of Mycenae would leave an indelible mark upon the cultural, religious, and civilizational development of both "The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Republic" and “The Empire of Mankind Primus.” Which is most apparent with the formal adoption and the appropriation of the religious worship in “The Mycenean Primordials” or “The Mycenean Elder Gods” through the historic conversion of Augustinian Regulus, born Arcadian, as "The Last, Aristocratic and Noble, Patrician Dictator For Life of The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Republic" and "The First and Founding, Hereditary, Dynastic, Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Imperator of Mankind" in syncretic concurrence with religious worship in “The Olympians” or “The Cosmopolitan Pantheon” based on the oral mythologies of The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Republic which would later be religiously termed as The Canon Pantheons of The Old Gods and The New Gods since the historic events of “The Enochian Heresy” and "The Great Exodus of Saint Enoch the Sufferer" that precipitated in Saint Enoch the Sufferer and his clerical and lay administration's formal protest to the codification, canonization, and formalization of the most widely attested, literary traditions of the Classical Mycenean and Romulan mythologies into the canon theology of the “Classical Cosmopolitan” or “Ecclesiastical Cosmopolitan” rite and liturgy of “The Holy Canons of The New Gods” under the theological reforms traditionally attributed to, and personally overseen by The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Imperator of Mankind “Cassadorian the Great.” The first major epoch within the traditional, canon histories of “The Civilized World” is termed as “Classical Antiquity,” as it was the material, intellectual, and social culture, mythological religion, customs, and traditions of the Mycenean and Romulan civilizations that would set up “the cultural foundation” or “the civilizational bedrock” for the later "Vernacular Cosmopolitan” or “Post-Cosmopolitan” cultures and states that would characterize “The Feudal Age," "The Age of Chivalry,” or "The Age of Faith" within the long and storied, canon histories of The Civilized World long after the ultimate and final collapse of The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Empire of Mankind Primus.

Under the secular, aristocratic, and princely patronage of Alano di Castiglione as “Il Duca Regnante di Messina e Il Patriarcato Dinastico e Attuale di Casa Castiglione.” Professional scholars and academics from “La Università degli Studi di Galedoni Ruggero Quattro” or “The University of Galedon Rogier IV” and professional painters, sculptors, and architects from “La Scuola Bravvosia delle Belle Arti” or “The Bravvosi School of Fine Arts” in “La Repubblica Serenissima di Toscana” or “The Most Serene Republic of Toscana” have been officially commissioned to explore and study the remnants of the Classical Romulan and Mycenean culture, mythological religion, and civilization of the “Frivoli” or “Southern Imperial” states’ ancestral forebears. Alongside Adriano Martini as “Il Censore-Eletto della Reppubbica Serenissima di Toscana” and Rodrigo di Borgia as “Il Margravio Regnante di Valencia” Alano di Castiglione as “Il Duca Regnante di Messina e Il Patriarcato Dinastico e Attuale di Casa Castigione” has become one of the most prolific patrons of the so-called “Olympian Renaissance” or “Il Rinascimento Olympiano” within the “Frivolo” or “Southern Imperial” cultural and linguistic hemisphere of "Il Impero dell'Umanità Secundo." As a material and intellectual cultural movement that originally rooted the secular, aristocratic, and princely patronage of Casa Martini as merchant princes geographically based in "La Repubblica Serenissima di Toscana" or "The Most Serene Republic of Toscana" during the closing centuries of “The Feudal Age,” "The Age of Chivalry,” or "The Age of Faith" within The Civilized World’s long and storied, canon histories. “Il Rinascimento Olympiano” or “The Olympian Renaissance” has had a profound impact on the development of secular art, music, literature, and philosophy. Using the novel technologies of early mechanical printing and papermaking, those exact same technological inventions which would later aid in the mass proliferation of the theological treatises and religious discourses of both Karl von Luxembourg, Ph.D, and Cassyon Dufresne in the form of their written thesis’ formally protesting and openly condemning the corruption, the abuses, and the worldly excesses of the spiritual, cultural, and moral authority of the ecclesiastical and monastic, clerical administration of The Conservative Church of The New Gods." The complimentary, technological inventions of mechanical printing and papermaking also contributing to the vernacular translations of The Holy Canons of The New Gods that would come synonymously with both the Luxembourgian and the Dissenter reformations theological and scriptural emphasis on "Sola Fide" or "Salvation by Faith Alone," and "Sola Scriptura" or "Salvation by The Canons Alone" throughout and beyond the "Il Impero dell'Umanità Secundo's" established frontiers.

Both the vernacular translations of Classical Romulan and Mycenean literary works and philosophical treatises, as well as printed copies of the academic research and rediscoveries officially penned and drafted by professional scholars, academics, and artists willing to explore and study the remnants of Classical Romulan and Mycenean culture, mythological religion, and civilization within the “Frivolo” or “Southern Imperial” hemisphere of “Il Impero dell’Umanità Secundo” would propel both an elite and a plebeian interest in “Il Rinascimento Olympiano” as a cultural and intellectual movement far beyond the geographic frontiers of "La Valle Olympiana” or “The Olympian Mountain Valley.” With the philosophical and the intellectual cultural revival of “secular humanism” corresponding with the widespread proliferation of secular art, music, literature, and philosophy inherently tied to the official sponsorship of professional scholars and fine artists by both the ecclesiastical and the princely patronage for the academic research and the cultural rediscovery of Classical Romulan and Mycenean culture, mythological religion, and civilization based within the natural, geographic frontiers of “La Valle Olympiana” or “The Olympian Mountain Valley.” Modern scholars and academics within and without the “Frivolo” or the “Southern Imperial” cultural and linguistic hemisphere of “Il Impero dell’Umanità Proprio” or “The Empire of Mankind Proper” are often seen comparing and critiquing both the contemporary society that they live in, as well as that of the previous society of “Feudal Age,” “The Age of Chivalry," or "The Age of Faith” within The Civilized World’s long and storied, canon histories to the ideals of Classical philosophers. Proliferating in the rise of secular philosophy and intellectual culture inherently tied to Classical Mycenean and Romulan philosophical ideals and scholastic traditions of rationality, empiricism, teleology, metaphysics, and aesthetics, as well as expanding both the potential and the inherent capacity of human beings as “thinking, feeling, and ethical beings” and of human civilization as a collective whole. And in the process setting new standards and ideals for both the hereditary, dynastic, feudal and oligarchical, ruling classes as well as the ruled. Intellectual and material cultural connoisseurs of the academic and artistic rediscoveries and research of “Il Rinascimento Olympiano” have been known to become experts on anything and everything from art, to music, to philosophy, to literary analysis, to political theory, to military strategy, to natural philosophy, to the material sciences, and everything in between.

Apart from his leading role in proliferating “Il Rinascimento Olympiano” as a material and intellectual, cultural movement through his secular, aristocratic, and princely patronage of professional scholars, academics, and artists willing to study and explore the remnants of Classical Romulan and Mycenean culture, mythological religion, and civilization. As well as his outspoken sponsorship and patronage of the spread and the proliferation of “secular humanism” as a philosophical and an intellectual cultural movement inherently tied to Classical Mycenean and Romulan philosophical ideals and scholastic traditions of rationality, teleology, empiricism, metaphysics, and aesthetics inherently separate, or otherwise detached from the intellectual framework of the religious dogma and the theological doctrines of “The Holy Canons of The New Gods” as officially preached, proselytized, and prescribed by the ecclesiastical and the monastic, clerical administration of “The Conservative Church of The New Gods” traditionally and officially housed and headquartered within The Holy Sept at Classical Romulus, Cosmopoleis. Classical Romulus, Cosmopoleis being the historic capital, the civilizational kernel, and titular namesake to both "The Cosmopolitan, Classical Romulan Republic" and “The Empire of Mankind Primus.” Alano di Castiglione has been plotting in direct cooperation with, and in conjunction to Adriano Martini as “Il Censore-Eletto della Serenissima Repubblica di Toscana” or “The Toscanii Republic” to form “La Lega Olympica” “The Olympic League” of “Frivoli” or “Southern Imperial” states campaigning for maximized autonomy from the feudal supremacy and the political excesses of the culturally and geographically distant “Imperatore-Eletto dell'Umanità” officially seated at “Nymphenburg,” the provincial capital of “Des Reichstaat” or “Der Reichsdomäne” and the hereditary lands of “Der Kaiserliche Haushalt” or “The Imperial Household” directly descended from the hereditary bloodline of "Prinz Heinrich Von Nymphenburg, The First Crowned and Anointed Imperator of The Empire of Mankind Secundus.” Adriano Martini as “Il Presidente Ufficiale” or “The Official Chairman” of “La Lega Olympica” campaigning for maximized autonomy from the feudal supremacy and the political excesses of “I Imperatori-Eletti dell'Umanità” or “The Emperors-Elect of Mankind” has had much difficulty in persuading Rodrigo di Borgia as “Il Margravio Regnante di Valencia e Il Patriarcato Dinastico e Attuale di Casa Borgia” to join and complete his “La Lega Olympica” in their campaign to achieve “maximized” autonomy from the feudal supremacy and the political excesses of The Emperors-Elect of Mankind. “La Consorte-Margravina” to Rodrigo di Borgia as “Il Margravio Regnante di Valencia e Il Patriarcato Dinastico e Attuale di Casa Borgia” is a “legitimate issue” or otherwise a “dynastic scion” of “Der Kaiserliche Haushalt” or “The Imperial Household” officially seated at Nymphenburg. "Der Momentaner Familienoberhaupt Des Kaiserlichen Haushalt" officially holds the title of "Imperatore-Eletto" as “Alexius VI, 101st and reigning Emperor-Elect of Mankind and Current Head of The Imperial Household.”

Rodrigo di Borgia as “Il Margravio Regnante di Valencia e Il Patriarcato Dinastico e Attuale di Casa Borgia” is also hellbent on cultivating closer political and religious ties with “The Archpatriarchy” or "The Archpatriarchal State" officially housed and headquartered within The Holy Sept at Classical Romulus, Cosmopoleis. Cardinal Alessandro di Borgia, "a legitimate issue" or "a dynastic scion" of Casa Borgia and the venerable uncle to Il Margravio Regnante di Valencia e Il Patriarcato Dinastico e Attuale di Casa Borgia currently holds the title of “Bishop-Preferati” or “Archpatriarchal Protégé” for the next official election to succeed the venerable and ailing Archpatriarch Vexillarius IV for the spiritual, cultural, and moral leadership and suzerainty of The Conservative Church of The New Gods as the next "Pontifex Maximus" or "Bishop of Romulus." With the overwhelming majority of “The Curia” or “The College of Cardinals” supporting his official election for "The Ecclesiastical Patriarch of The Conservative Church of The New Gods" due to the political and religious turbulence, tumult, and upheaval inherently associated with the compounded advents of the Luxembourgian and Dissenter reformations throughout and beyond "Des Selbsten Kaisrreich der Menschheit's" or “Il Impero dell’Umanità Proprio’s” established frontiers. Vexillarius IV as “The 299th and Reigning Bishop of Romulus” and “The Current, Ecclesiastical Patriarch of The Conservative Church of The New Gods” is a natural ally to Alexius VI and The Imperial Household as the hereditary, dynastic, “Imperial Princeps” or “Imperial Magnate” for “Des Reichstaat,” “Der Reichsdomäne," or “Nymphenburg,” as Alexius VI as “The 101st and Reigning Emperor-Elect of Mankind and The Current, Dynastic Patriarch of The Imperial Household” is supremely reliant on the unanimous support of all three ecclesiastical, invested “Kurfürsten Des Selbste Kaiserreich der Menschheit” to retain his dynastic household’s ancestral monopoly over the official elections for the title of “Il Imperatore-Eletto dell'Umanità.” Especially in an age when most of the secular, hereditary "Kurfürsten Des Selbst Kaiserreich der Menscheit" outside of the staunchly and fervently, Religiously Conservative “Hohenluxembourg Des Königreich Schönbrunn” have formally annulled their spiritual, cultural, and moral ties of fealty and subordination to The Holy Sept at Classical Romulus, Cosmopoleis through their legislative decrees to officially convert to either "The Luxembourgian Reformation" or "The Dissenter Theology" on behalf of their dynastic houses, their hereditary subjects, and their municipal citizens. The three ecclesiastical, invested, “Kurfürsten Des Selbst Kaiserreich der Menscheit” essentially being the Bishop-Princes of Griffenheim, Garyalburg, and Elchingen within the ecclesiastical and the monastic, clerical administration of The Conservative Church of The New Gods.

Not every nineteenth-century greyhound appears in a painting.

Some survive in heraldry.

This family coat of arms, reproduced in Reminiscences of a Nonagenarian (Newburyport, Huse & Co., 1879), places a greyhound as the crest above the shield, a reminder of the qualities long associated with the breed: vigilance, loyalty, nobility, and speed.

Even in a small wood engraving, the silhouette is unmistakable.

Cette enluminure de la Renaissance représente Bertrand du Guesclin, noble breton et connétable de France pendant la guerre de Cent Ans. Ce portrait en pied est issu du manuscrit portugais du XVIe siècle appelé le Livro do Armeiro-mor (1509), réalisé par l'héraldiste João do Cró.

Dans cet armorial, Bertrand du Guesclin est célébré en tant que Dixième Preux. Cette distinction unique l'ajoute à la liste traditionnelle des Neuf Preux, les héros historiques et mythologiques considérés au Moyen Âge comme l'incarnation idéale de la chevalerie.