It seems, as if the text refers to a real comedy with adversary innkeepers in Piscina's time "by the Intronati of the famous academy of Siena", possibly using the content "one innkeeper with a Fool sign and the other with a Mirror sign". ... ????? Have you identified meanwhile t...

Well I think these 'pictures' are wonderful!(Are they paintings or a rescued fresco?) Firstly they appear to be gambling for money (or would that be buttons?) Women playing for money? The checkerboard is short some squares? 36 squares? What is that game? It appears the fellow who needs to play next...

I agree - it is not less likely that Piscina was looking at a vanished kind of Tarot. When he said Mondo, he might have meant there was really a "world" (cosmos) in the middle of those four creatures. And the four creatures mean that the World cannot be without religion. In this case, Pis...

A Fool with bees, a motif, which also appears at the Leber Rouen Tarocchi in the form of a soldier, is a detail at one of the 4 "Augsburger Monatsbilder" (now in a Berlin Museum). http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/kurzweil/ikona/jan11.jpg which is a detail of this picture part (January) http...

hi Mike, I reflect a few things You are saying that the PMB was created from scratch--not from the CY, anyway-by three 15 year olds, possibly aided by the suitor of one of them, at a New Year's celebration in Ferrara 1441. They designed 14 special cards and had them painted by an artist hired for th...

hi, Jess Already in 15th century there was Cartofeminism of high degree My understanding of the word "Cartofeminism" is that it refers to a modern, really postmodern phenomenon. What you are talking about is an effort by male authorities in 15th-century Italy to control the behavior of the...

" ... you don't understand the dimensions of "thinking sport". I thought this thread was about Cartofeminism which indicated that women do not participate in thinking sports- just drivel and they were taking over the world of Tarot, had no concepts of History of cards......... Have a...

"But I became quite obsessed, and she lost interest." This is a common development, some get obsessed, others not. Mostly boys become obsessed. Girls have mostly not the free energy capacity. These decisions of early youth determine the later statistical results. There are some big holes ...

Right, and there is a scientific basis for the notion that women are intellectually inferior to men. It's always good to know where one stands in the eyes of others. Got it. ... :-) ... there is evidence by the Hungarian Judit Polgar and the Chess teaching concept of her father, that there is no es...

Well, I think, that the following is a true observation about modern Tarot history ... although not too much refering to cartofeminism. Undoubtly the internet took its start in US America ... this happened in a period, when in America the topic of Tarot was still of larger interest, which is confirm...