T21_Sola_Busca.jpg This is the higher trump of the Sola Busca deck (Nabuchodenasor). I think the globe is intended to remind the World cards of common tarot. But what is the specific meaning of this quite peculiar globe? The deck was engraved, probably in Ferrara, 1485 ca. Consider that the stars o...

I'm reading Alfred Douglas's 1972 book The Tarot: The Origins, Meaning and Uses of the Cards and coincidentally last night saw in his timeline: 1415 Tarot cards are painted for the Duke of Milan Douglas footnotes Tarocchi by Franco Maria Ricci, Parma, 1969, of which he says, "The Visconti Taro...

Marco, I appreciate your enthusiasm but to avoid confusion, it would probably be better to start a separate thread if you want to add other pictures. I agree. I removed my previous post. An Allegory of War and Peace. Basel, 1499 Two blocks, side by side. Fragmentary. Text below headline lacking. On...

deleted...I will possibly repost the image to a separate thread in the future

Two more "late" data that possibly could be taken into, since the experts seem to agree on dates and places, are: * engraving of the Sola-Busca deck, Ferrara 1485 * painting of the Sola-Busca deck, Venice 1491 Is the painting of Sola-Busca the earliest reference to Tarot in Venice? Marco

Women were used for representations of virtues (and sometimes, vices), for abstractions such as stars and moons Hello Atlantean, welcome to Tarot History.The allegorical use of female images in XV / XVI century art is very frequent indeed (although obviously not exclusive). This fits perfectly well...

Who was Sebastian Brant? I still think probably the German poet, most famous for his 'Ship of Fools' as I mentioned in my first post, it is he who immediately comes to mind (and led to my misreadin Marte as narre). ..... As to the latin, I was thinking defleta as in 'lament'. I have checked a dicti...

Mercury as perhaps the flourishing of knowledge or health in peace-time I agree with your analysis of the elements of Peace and War, RAH. But I think that Mercury is here mainly as a symbol of the flourishing of commerce, since he is holding a purse which I think is full of money. Still, the presen...

Ross, this diagram is very impressive. It presents in a small space a lot of information and the result of a long and accurate research. I agree that it is a good basis to make the most plausible statement about the date in which the game was invented. 1437/1442 is a short period of time. Very accur...

-Tell me if it s talking about the 22 only ? 1565 it is very early paesano... Hello Eugim, unluckily, I don't know the content of the whole essay by Piscina. From the title, I think he only discusses the Trumps. 1565 is a lot of time ago, but more than a century later than the invention of Tarot. I...