I follow your line of reasoning, but I'm still inclined to see 20 trump cards as forming the developer's initial sequence, or prototype. For one, it is difficult to imagine someone creating a sequential ordering of symbolic themes and then intentionally leaving the lowest two cards unnumbered, presu...

Here I am assuming that the Bolognese treatment of the four papi was borrowed from Florence as part of the original game. I follow Ross’s theory, that the original game was intended for four people in 2 fixed partnerships and that the number of trump cards was determined mathematically as the number...

I would like to thank Ross Caldwell for the recommendation to join this forum. I've been studying the Tarot and its contextual history for around three years now. I have a great deal of that history sorted out; however, one area in which I could really use some additional insight and opinions regard...