I want not to let another comment of Ross's go by without further notice. Another issue is the one Ross raised about Cupid being more powerful than Jupiter. I take that as Marziano's ironic suggestion of a circularity in the order, not that different from seeing the Fool as both the last card and b...

One thing that strikes me as surprising is the durability of Michelino's cards. Decembrio notes that they cost 1500 gold ducats. One would assume that they would rarely be played and kept only for display yet Decembrio notes that it was the duke's favourite game. These cards lasted for over twenty y...

At the very least, it is a five-suit trick-taking game with four plain suits and one longer trump suit. This is what we don't know: How many players? Do all cards get distributed or is there a talon? Are all cards worth the same like in whist? Do you have to follow suit? Can you play trumps whenever...

How did you get to that url, Ludophone? Google doesn't take me ther.. I have been wanting to access certain tarotpedia pages for months. I notice that "web.archive" is the first part of the url. Is there some magic way of getting to such places? I installed an add-on of the Wayback Machin...

For Piscina, you can use this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20161013145 ... corso_1565

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Since this book is long out of print and the nearest library that holds it requires a long haul flight, it would be best for me to just ask some questions regarding the game described by the anonymous discourse. Is there some clue as how this game was played? I'm aware that there was mention of berg...

The Museo Fournier de Naipes de Álava has an online catalogue: https://apps.euskadi.eus/emsime/colecci ... va/museo-2

You can retrieve data from the website through the internet archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20171011034357/http://www.tarotpedia.com:80/wiki/Main_Page I use an add-on to make it more convenient. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/?src=userprofile https://chrome.g...

One more difference between Marco and Dummett regarding part 2: Original: De' Trionfi veramente il più numero, ne li brevi da l'uno de' canti signato, è vincitore. E quello de' giocatori che vincerà, tanti giochi quanti vincerà, tanti scuti potrà dimandare a chi egli vorà di coloro che nel circolo s...