Thanks Enrique and Robert!

Marco made a PDF to go with the book - a side-by-side comparison chart of Piscina and Anonymous - but we couldn't include it because it was too large for one page, and it was in colour.

It's very helpful and concise, so if you like I'll email it to you.

Dear forum, I am pleased to announce the publication of Explaining the Tarot: Two Italian Renaissance Essays on the Meaning of the Tarot Pack edited, translated and commented by Ross Sinclair Caldwell, Thierry Depaulis, Marco Ponzi http://www.rosscaldwell.com/art/FrontCover.jpg The symbolism of Taro...

The scheme matches the order of the trumps from Devil to World/Angel as well -

Inferno - Devil
Elements - Fuoco, Saetta
Star(s)
Planets (Moon-Sun)
Paradise (World or Angel)

This is the way that both 16th century commentators understood the trump sequence as well - as a cosmological hierarchy.

I'm surprised not to see Julius Caesar in there! For Saturn - Brutus, Crassus, Piccinino and Pompey - betrayers or betrayed. What is the point of having Brutus and Crassus if Caesar is not mentioned? Or is it just unnecessary? Maybe Sigismondo Fanti was one of those who agreed with the aims of the c...

Actually it would be of interest to see the real source to have really an own opinion about it. The real source is just this letter of Galeazzo Maria to Sagramoro da Rimini - "Ad noi vene referto che la bona memoria del Reverendissimo Monsignore nostro de Santo Sixto havia grande quantitate de...

http://www.archive.org/stream/bulletindubibli50frangoog/bulletindubibli50frangoog_djvu.txt ... and search for "peaux de zibelines" No 48. 23 janvier 1474. — Cette lettre, adressée par le cabinet du Duc à un certain Sagramoro de Rimini, ligure ici par suite d'une erreur reconnue postérieur...

There is a reference to the term "sibilline cards" in Sandrina Bandera's essay on the Visconti and Sforza cards, Brera. I tarocchi: il casa e la fortuna. Bonifacio Bembo e la coltura cortese tardogotica (Milan, 1999). She says "Galeazzo Maria Sforza possessed 'silbilline cards'" ...

Well, I'm not so used to handle with libraries. How would you get such an item? I dimly remember it was published somewhere, but I can't find it yet. It should be possible to get a copy of the pages from the archives here - http://archiviodistatomilano.it/guida-on-line/complessi-archivistici/MIBA00...

Note that 924 (8 November) has an entry for two packs as well (possibly one of our duplicates, I haven't checked).

Sorry for the delay. Here are the relevant sections (whole pages) from Fransceschini. Save the image or click on the URL below each for the full-size images. http://www.rosscaldwell.com/franceschini/822to823.jpg http://www.rosscaldwell.com/franceschini/822to823.jpg http://www.rosscaldwell.com/france...