The wheel of Fortune, France, 16th century. The allegorical figure of Fortune sits on a throne turning a wheel with a king at the top, and peasants at bottom. La roue de Fortune. XVIe siecle. Taken from a manuscript of Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae, MS 6877, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Chromolithograph by Giare after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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