I have the same problem with Avast's Web Shield. This is the message that appears (I hope you can access it): AvastMessage.jpg If you try to access the site again after that, you don't see that message, you just see an error message in your browser that says that the site is not secure. But if you t...

Thanks for drawing our attention to Franco's latest work, Mike. His prodigious output never ceases to amaze me. The seemingly high number of woodblocks in this printer's workshop doesn't surprise me, however. Most of those 72 woodblocks were probably quite small. As Franco says, it would have been t...

Grazie Rosele. È interessante il fatto che le copertine fossero ancora realizzate con carta riciclata anche nel XIX secolo. Questa tecnica è già diventata piuttosto rara dopo la metà del XVI secolo. Purtroppo non possiamo vedere le immagini delle carte, ma se assomigliano a quelle del sito web di Dr...

Thanks Steve. It's interesting to see further evidence that would support a transalpine origin of the Cary sheet.

Thanks Steve. That article by Negri is from 2018 and he is very definite in his information, so the manuscript must be in the San Bernardino library (the "Fondazione Biblioteca San Bernardino"). I can stop waiting for the Biblioteca Comunale to digitize it. In the footnote on the first pag...

3. Leonardo Colombino, ‘Il Trionfo dei Tarocchi’, Trento 1547. B order unless Fame replaces Hanged Man. Temperance, Devil, and Popess absent, Dummett says. [Andrea Vitali at http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=199&lng=eng has in Italian and English the whole stanza on the Devil, Stanza XIX out o...

For more information about that Rovereto deck, see: Peter Blaas, “Spielkarten Aus Alt-Tirol Teil 3: In Museen Außerhalb Tirols,” Talon 14 (2005), p 32. Available online at: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZnpDa7Z1fVPnqw7HSB16JzTCckLdbG20JkX There are many cards that survive from earlier dec...

A bit of quick googling found a couple of examples of the basic Bentivoglio arms (the "red saw" with the other diagonal half in yellow) with a panther (or at least something that looks like it could be a panther) atop the crest: https://bbcc.regione.emilia-romagna.it/pater/loadcard.do?id_c...

The Palazzo Poggi fresco by Niccolò dell'Abate looks like another case of the same misnaming phenomenon that happened with the Casa Borromeo fresco in Milan: an image that was never intended to be interpreted as people playing tarot was later called something like The Tarot Players— I giocatori di t...

The Bodleian Library is in the process of digitizing the Douce Collection of Playing Cards. There are some quite important cards in it, and some tarot decks. All the images can be downloaded in high resolution:

https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/searc ... ying+Cards