Tarot History Forum

Somehow the first "World card with 4 evangelists in the corner" ...

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/-Icons-Pe ... 0peterpaul


http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainme ... story.html

Some links to Etteilla material:

http://autorbis.net/tarot/biography/tar ... eilla.html

Andrea Vitali announced 4 new essays in Italian language ...

1 - Torquato Tasso and Tarot ("Now I am tired and want to play with tarot" / Ora sono stanco e vo' giocare a Tarocchi)

2 - The Sermons of Giusti (XIX century)

3 - The Aristotelian Telescope by Emanuele Tesauro (XVII century)

4 - Tarot in Literature with unpublished articles on tarot ... or where Tarot is mentioned by Cecchi (1518-1587), Marino (1569-1625), Tassoni (1565-1635), Belando ( XVI century), Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658), in satires by Ariosto.

at this page (see menu):
http://letarot.it/I-Sermoni-del-Giusti_ ... 6_ita.aspx

An interesting page ...



... a German festival book 1596 for the birth and baptizing of a young child

reported here:
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/feeds/ ... -results=4

digital version:
http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/B ... 01352.html

MANY pictures, a sort of Trionfo

Thanks Huck. Interesting!

My favorite:
http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/B ... 00088.html

A further new finding by Andrea Vitali:

http://www.letarot.it/Un-Artista-povero ... 4_ita.aspx
compare
http://books.google.com/books?id=-awPAA ... &q&f=false

Poor painter is so poor, that he had to paint Tarocchi cards (active ca. 1520)

It is very interesting compared with Gherardo Ortalli:

- Giovanni Cagnolo e don Messore: un laboratorio per fabbricare dei tarocchi alla corte di Borso d’Este. In Ludica. Annali di storia e civiltà del gioco,(1996).

- The Prince and the playing cards. The Este family and the role of courts at the time of the “Kartenspiel-Invasion”. In Ludica. Annali di storia e civiltà del gioco, 2 (1996).

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I feel identified with the painters of the tarot ... poor as a rat .

Huck wrote:A further new finding by Andrea Vitali:

http://www.letarot.it/Un-Artista-povero ... 4_ita.aspx
compare
http://books.google.com/books?id=-awPAA ... &q&f=false

Poor painter is so poor, that he had to paint Tarocchi cards (active ca. 1520)

My reading of "dipingere" here would be "to colour" - that is, he coloured the printed cards. That would seem to be a menial job.

I don't think it would be a poor man who would be painting whole decks from scratch, like Bembo.

Andrea also interprets it as "decorare" - to decorate.

So... the stenciler?

... ... Moving Tarocchi picture ...

http://www.360cities.net/image/giardino ... 90.00,70.0

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