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Surely Harrington took the name ' Rota ' from the highest court in Catholic Christendom ?
editSurely Harrington took the name of his club from the highest court in medieval Christendom which as I understood it was intended as a way of settling disputes between parties which might otherwise be at war ? There is already a wikipedia page about the Catholic Rota here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacra_Rota - and numerous other webpages describe and discuss it. ( I became aware of this because of the argument that Tarocci games which were originally like medieval educational flashcard games teaching children about the four seasons etc developed into court card games which challenged people to consider politics i.e. that the four suits are the four estates of society of late medieval political theory bringing their complaints to the R-O-T-A ... -T : the word on many of the cards of ' Fortuna ' is inscribed on the Wheel of Fortune and means ' wheel ' but it may have been dangerous to display the fact that it referred to the Papal court obviously so hence its reversal as T-A-R-O ... -T )DaiSaw (talk) 20:45, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Petty
editIn the section 'Social composition' Maximilian Petty is mentioned as one of the regular visitors. This is impossible. He died 1639. Please check this. I suppose William Petty is meant. in: Aspromourgos, Tony (1996) - On the Origins of Classical Economics : Distribution and Value From William Petty to Adam Smith. London : Routledge. Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, Vol. 6. ISBN 9780203434222, William Petty is said to have "become a regular participant in the debates of James Harrington's Rota Club" (p. 13).