Queen of Batons Sola-Busca
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A queen holding a wand. A shield is near the throne.
[edit] Textual references
[edit] Giovanni Boccaccio - Genealogie Deorum Gentilium
Minerva, non ea cui cognomen Trytonia fuit, Iovis secundi fuit filia, ut scribit Tullius de Naturis deorum; quam idem Tullius inventricem asserit fuisse bellorum atque principem, et ob id a nonnullis Bellona appellata est;
Minerva, not the one that is said Trytonia, was the second daughter of Jove, as Tullius (Cicero) writes in "De Naturis Deorum"; the same Tullius says she invented war ("bellum"), this is why someone calls her Bellona.
[edit] Giovanni Boccaccio - De Claris Mulieribus (Of Illustrious Women)
About Minerva, who is also called Pallas. Chapter VI.
Minerve, also called Pallas, was so famous for her unnumerable virtues that many thought firmly she is an immortal goddess.
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It is also said that she found the art of preparing, carding, spinning, warping and weaving wool: about this invention it is told the famous dispute between her and Arachne of Colophon.
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In one of her hands she kept a long spear, to signify that the prudent man, foreseeing danger, with the light of his own good advice, keeps away from it. In her other hand she had a cristal shield, on which the head of the Gorgonian Meduse was represented, willing to express that all things obscure and secret are clear and evident to the wise men: they, like serpents, are always so full of prudence, that, in comparison to them, the ignorant seems as unsensible as stone.
[edit] Image references
The shield and the spear are the classical attributes of Pallas / Athena / Minerva.
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