With this note and another note to follow, we move to the Kingdom of Sardinia in the early years of the 19th century. The original title is "Carte e tarocchi a Sassari all’inizio dell’Ottocento," posted at https://www.naibi.net/A/TASASSA.pdf on Aug. 2, 2023 - so I am going back and picking...

Here is another note, translated from "Firenze circa 1720. Minchiate e cavalieri senza cavalleria," https://www.naibi.net/A/CAVAL.pdf, this time about a game of minchiate in which tempers and objects fly, among so-called nobles. Again, numbers in the left margin are the page numbers of Fan...

I left out one of the inventory studies from March, which I present now. The original is "Firenze 1420 e 1424. Naibi in vendita e naibi triste," at https://naibi.net/A/NAIBBI.pdf, dated March 13, 2024. Again, words in brackets are mine, mainly for explanatory purposes, after consulting wit...

This is my supplement to the previous post, which gave a translation of Franco's note on another educational minchiate, this one from 1748-1750. I wanted to look as closely as I could at the Munich booklet Franco links to (dated by them at 1750), to see if there was anything anybody missed about the...

The find now is a new kind of minchiate, or at least that is the claim. It is in the same vein as the ancient history minchiate of a previous note. The original, "1748 – Minchiate incomplete di un pastore arcade," is dated May 1, 2024, and is at https://www.naibi.net/A/ARCADE.pdf. The &quo...

Here now is another, "Firenze 1783 ‒ Il giallo del Diavolo," https://www.naibi.net/A/BACCANO.pdf. As usual, comments in brackets are my additions (in consultation with Franco) for explanatory purposes. Numbers in the left margin correspond to those of his pdf. I have a few comments afterwa...

Here is another find of Franco's, from the same Biblioteca Moreniana as in his preceding notes: "Minchiate, un campo troppo vasto per l’Accademia," https://www.naibi.net/A/RICCI.pdf. This time there is a mention of a hitherto unknown minchiate designer, which Franco's sleuthing makes it no...

Thanks, Huck. I had forgotten. I even translated that essay, a dozen years ago, http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=180&lng=eng. It even provides a couple of quotes, the parts about the four seasons and the four cardinal virtues in relation to the four suits. It was only pp 11-15 that I supposed ...

Here are another couple of finds by Franco, still rummaging through the Biblioteca Moreniani. The first is an erudite mock defense of playing cards, "Carte da gioco difese in accademia e in chiesa," https://www.naibi.net/A/ELOGIO.pdf. The author would seem to be a high-ranking member of an...

From the discussion of the B series of engravings, what I found of interest is this, on p. 131: https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=3198 Screenshot 2024-05-06 at 04-20-09 HindTriumphs_162534.pdf.png The dimensions of Love are, he says on p. 133, 260x173 mm. Chastity is 257x164. Death...