... him. In the second poem, it is unclear which he is. Triumph and Complaint: Tarot in the Vatican Franco Pratesi 1. Introduction The first tarocchi appropriati [appropriated tarot – tarot subjects associated with given personages] I came across was the Triomphi de Troilo Pomeran , and I described ...

... rough translation of Pedini, which follows, doesn't discuss scavezzo numbers; it is possible that they are Pisarri's innovation; the tarocchi appropriati from Bologna, unlike at least one from Florence, don't use card numbers either.) The scavezzo number is a shortcut so that the team without ...

Another difficulty is that the order of the virtues in this new appropriati is that invariably reported in Florence, with Justice high, Fortitude middle, and Temperance low, whereas that of Bologna has Fortitude high and Justice middle. We might recall ...

It might be possible to locate the appropriati's origin by the terms used, which sometimes vary from the standard. Instead of the usual "Sagitta" or "Saetta" for the Tower card, we see "Sagieta." In the stanza ...

... in my mind, the question remains of whether they were simply a standard form among the writers of octaves generally at that time. Looking at other appropriati, I see that the one to the prostitutes of Florence has the same rhyme scheme and meter (http://www.associazioneletarot.it/page.aspx?id=887), ...

... the same as the Cesena poem, and both of them do nothing but praise the ladies in question, profusely and uncritically (unlike many other tarocchi appropriati works). It is also presented in a similar way, with the name of the trump at the top of each stanza (the Cesena poem then also writes the ...

Andrea Vitali has just posted a new historical essay, transcribing a tarocchi appropriati of 21 eight-line stanzas which he has not seen elsewhere, found by a Vatican librarian. All the stanzas are apparently dedicated to the same lady, and each stanza has a title. ...

... essays and a lot not translated at all. Some highlights of particular interest to THF members: Translations of all or part of several tarocchi appropriati in the narrow sense of casual literary works applying tarot subjects to people, including one Florentine, about street prostitutes, a few ...

... our fate in the next, the B and C World cards are good in both respects, the most powerful card and with high points. It might help to look at the appropriati verses associated with this card in the A region versus B and C. Croce in 1602 Bologna says of the World card, which in his day was second ...

... leads to the "Pratesi cartomancer". I haven't studied it, but here is the information I have, from a list of Tarocchi Appropriati I made in 2007 - 11. 1680-1690 Bologna Anonymous, "Il Giuoco di Tarocchini sopra Michele Tekeli Ribello." (Berti and Vitali 1987, ...