Yes, the PMB Matto and Forza cards are by different artists. That has been recognized for a long time. Forza is one of 6 cards (along with Temperance, Star, Moon, Sun, and World) by a different artist than the others, of a style popular later than that of the first artist. Whether they were made as ...

Loredan wrote, Thanks Huck. So the Outlet was mostly the Silk Merchant's store. All these years later you could call the Silk Merchant a 'Haberdashery' store. There a few around still but it is a dying store, that sold Material, embroidery threads, wool, fancies like a Tinker-man and playing cards a...

Note added July 8: I have changed the title of this thread to reflect better what I am getting at. It took a while for me to think of a proper title. Even that is not quite right, but it will do. By "Italian Renaissance sources" I do not mean works written in the Italian Renaissance, but rather work...

Thanks, Alain.

Well, that was too well put to leave in French. My google-assisted translation: For decades, on AE or elsewhere, we have all given and shared, repeatedly and without blinking, in a totally voluntary way: the list is long, very long ... The most illustrious names of the tarosphere, dead or still aliv...

The part about his being with (aupres de, French Wikipedia says) Leon Alberti was new to me; English Wikipedia doesn't mention it. Looking at the French Wikipedia article at that point, I see no reference. Perhaps it is just speculation. They were both in the same city at the same time and both inte...

Thanks for posting that link, Alain. Parts of it have been discussed on THF, on particular triumphs, but not the general thesis and especially the relevance of ps-Dionysius on "divine names" and "celestial hierarchy". Yes, any comments would be welcome.

I want to make an additional comment on Franco's essay "Triumphs and Triumphi" (http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1092&start=20#p17714), specifically the part pertaining to Moakley. These are some thoughts stimulated by the MA thesis I have reviewed on another thread. I wrote this a...

Just a heads up to anyone here who may have some last words on some topic on Aeclectic Tarot Forum: it will be read-only starting July 14. Also they say that private messages will be inaccessible then, too, as they would require log-ins. Although interest seems to be down, it would still be good if ...

However a friend of mine recently tried to join THF and got the message

Creating a new account is currently not possible.

I hope this is being worked on. I have emailed the person who I know currently has some moderator functions.