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Re: Tarot Origins and Early 15th Century Woodblock Printing

Thanks for the clarification, Lorredan. And for the information about the geniuses, Huck. Now I have a question I've been meaning to ask for a while, about the famous artisan in Bologna who was worried about his livelihood after Bernardino's bonfires. Iris Origo, in The world of San Bernardino , 196...

Re: Tarot Origins and Early 15th Century Woodblock Printing

Lorredan wrote, of my hypothesis Wow! :-o That originator was sure running around collecting influences. I don't think that the Petrarch Triumphs plus the 7 virtues is much in the way of influences to run around getting. The other things I mentioned, except the Giotto vices, aren't necessarily influ...

Re: Tarot Origins and Early 15th Century Woodblock Printing

Jim, your references to Hadot in relation to the virtue tradition interested me. I respect what I've read by him. Can you give a reference? And yes, the virtue tradition in ethics was not well respected in British-American philosophy, and I think German philosophy, from the Enlightenment on, until M...

Re: Tarot Origins and Early 15th Century Woodblock Printing

Well, here's something by a living author, Christine-Payne Towler. However the book is copyright 1999, and whether she still agrees with what follows I don't know. I think once an Arkletter of hers came up for me in a Google search, and she said she'd rethought some things. (I've never met her, even...

Re: That Word Again...Tarot

Hey, for the origin of "tarocchi", don't forget this one. I reproduce part of a page from the Aldine Venice 1497 Greek-Latin Lexicon (Lexicon Graeco-Latinum), by Giovanni Castoni. It shows two "tarach-" (tau alpha rho alpha chi) words, defined as "pertubatio" and "...

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