Franco Pratesi has written 2 new articles. The first one is the last ....


1693-1698 – MINCHIATE AT THE AQUILOTTI ACADEMY
http://trionfi.com/minchiate-aquilotti-academy

... of the last year and it's a sort of prolongation of the recent article ...

1674-1685 – MINCHIATE AT THE EVANGELISTA ACADEMY
http://trionfi.com/minchiate-evangelista-academy

Both describe playing card activities in Florentine Minchiate and other games club.

The second article is the first ...

1400 – NAIBI ON LOAN IN AREZZO
http://trionfi.com/evx-arezzo-playing-cards

... of the new Academic year, and it considers one of the first playing cards notes in Italy, this time not from Florence, but from Arezzo. The occasion is humble, and the document has a single sentence, but it is one of the first, so it will have some history impact.

Anyway, we opened a new page ...
http://trionfi.com/ev00
... the other page was already much too full.

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Another new development:
Franco Pratesi and the IPCS will publish in a few weeks a new book, and it will contain articles of the past year with only small changes (I assume so) against those, which appeared earlier at Trionfi.com, mainly those, which considered the early time of the Trionfi. New are a foreword, and some personal statements of Franco at the end of the book.

Franco Pratesi: Playing-Card Trade in 15th-Century Florence

It will also contain a few sentences about this forum.

120 pages. It will take 12 English pounds for non-members and 8 English pounds for members of the IPCS. Plus costs for sending.

I'd had a wrong information about the price of the new book, I've changed it.

120 pages. It will take 12 English pounds for non-members and 8 English pounds for members of the IPCS. Plus costs for sending.

That's correct.

Franco Pratesi has written a new article about Playing Cards in Pisa in 18th century.
http://trionfi.com/ev02

Franco has announced a new finding of 1410 ... publication will follow soon.

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.... :-) ... why is it so silent the last days ? November ?

Franco has published the Naibi note of 1410. It relates to a move from Florence to Arezzo and the note appears at an inventory made for the move.

http://trionfi.com/ev03

Generally one has to see, that the recent 2 notes of Naibi (in one case Maibi) belong to the oldest, what Italy has in matters of playing cards. Twice the location Arezzo is mentioned, an interesting place. Petrarca was born there. Anghiari is not far from there.

http://trionfi.com/ev01
http://trionfi.com/ev03

... the both articles related to the 2 new findings at Arezzo, were improved by some more pictures, especially with the
documentary representation.

... :-) ... would be nice, we would have all documents in this way.

Pinchart, Alexandre
Recherches sur les cartes a jouer et sur leur fabrication en Belgique depuis l'annee 1379 jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siecle. (1870)

http://books.google.de/books?id=VixCAAA ... es&f=false

I'd earlier searched for it without success and I found it now - I'm lucky.

The text is crucial for the Belgian Playing Card development and a lot of people overlooked it or had the same problem as me. Now it's online. It's not very long, 53 pages. I selected the most important early reports, that is about the court of Brabant (1379-1383), and the development in Tournai since 1427 with the list of the master cardmakers and their helpers.


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There's more interesting stuff in it. Pinchart goes till 18th century and then it also contains Tarot reports (not much, and I didn't found something before 1750, but some names were not known by Kaplan).

Franco Pratesi has published his 3rd "Naibi in Arezzo" article ...

1400-1408 – FLORENCE-AREZZO TRADE OF NAIBI
http://trionfi.com/evx-arezzo-giglio-di-bettino

The both earlier had been of minor importance, just two notes, which included the word "Naibi". This 3rd one is a complete playing card trade of a minor retailer, who in 9 years 1400-1408 bought totally 344 decks for 1335 Soldi from different playing card traders in Florence, apparently with the intention to sell these decks in Arezzo not to other traders, but just to the private public, which wished to play with these decks.

Comparable documents in connected context weren't known before for this early time (1400 -1408), neither in Germany or elsewhere in Europe. Second to this is the recently documented trade of the Lapini family between 1415-22 ...
http://trionfi.com/lapini-playing-cards
... though this seems to have been mostly a trade between traders.

Giglio di Bettino, the trader in Arezzo, was already noted in one of the earlier found documents, 1400 – NAIBI ON LOAN IN AREZZO.
http://trionfi.com/evx-arezzo-playing-cards

http://trionfi.com/et00

... still is in the development state (with errors, with empty places, with unfinished projects), but it might be already useful. The projected publishing date was Nicolaus 2012, and so there it is ... we hadn't so much time to finish it in the last weeks, and possibly we don't find the time in the next months.

Finally it shall replace the old Trionfi document collection. The mission is to merge old Trionfi documents, which were known before 2011/12 (so before Franco Pratesi's new discoveries) with Franco Pratesi's new discoveries and to create a sort of new overview. But that's still a longer way.

Enjoy.

As promised: a new Arezzo article from Franco Pratesi

http://trionfi.com/evx-arezzo-stefano-minucci
1457-71 CARDS TRADED IN AREZZO BY STEFANO MINUCCI

One new Trionfi note in 1471 (the earliest in Arezzo), a participation of Matteo Ballerini, who also worked for the silk dealers and a longer trade in snippets. The trader's name is Stefano Minucci.
Remarkable is a 3-months period in 1469, when the trader bought 456 decks ... all cheap decks for 1.33 Soldi. ...

1458: Matteo Ballerini maestro di charte da giuchare de avere adì 30 dottobre [1458] s. trentassei i quali sono per doi dozzine di charte pichole per s. 18 dozzina........................................– L.1 s.16
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1471: Prestai adì 4 di genajo [1471] a Francesco di Nicolo di Giovanni uno paio di Triunfi portogli il francioso loro famiglio ...................... L.-

Franco Pratesi has written his 5th and for the moment his last article to Playing Cards in Arezzo ... the series looks now like this:

http://trionfi.com/ev01
1400 – NAIBI ON LOAN IN AREZZO, 01.11.2012 .... Giglio di Bettino

http://trionfi.com/ev04
1400-08 – FLORENCE-AREZZO TRADE OF NAIBI, 24.11.2012 .... Giglio di Bettino

http://trionfi.com/ev03
1410 – NAIBI IN A MOVE FROM FLORENCE TO AREZZO, 08.11.2012 .... Lazzaro Bracci

http://trionfi.com/ev06
1421-39 – PLAYING CARDS TRADED IN AREZZO BY AGNOLO DI GIOVANNI, 15.12.2012

http://trionfi.com/ev05
1457-71 – CARDS TRADED IN AREZZO BY STEFANO MINUCCI, 09.12.2012

Franco Pratesi thinks, that there is more material in Arezzo, but in his next researches he will focus on other locations in the Toscana outside of Florence. He offers the opinion, that Toscana generally had had a better documentation than elsewhere, so the findings that he made there, might be not possible at other locations in Italy.

The most impressive article of the Arezzo series is likely the article to Giglio Bettino 1400-08. Comparable material in this early time in this density wasn't found at other locations in Europe.


http://a-tarot.eu/p/2012/zz/bettino-1.jpg

http://trionfi.com/ev01
1400 – NAIBI ON LOAN IN AREZZO, 01.11.2012 .... Giglio di Bettino

I was wondering, (as I have seen this 'on loan' elsewhere) if this was an early form of royalty payment for using the cards as a template for further sets?
I have often wondered if this happened.
~Lorredan