Bolognese deck from c. 1650
Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 17:55
Is this the earliest complete version of a Bolognese Tarot deck?
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/s ... id=1040184
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/s ... id=1040184
Over 500 years of history in 78 cards
https://forum.tarothistory.com/
And Andrea Vitali had it NOT in his book in 2004.Production person
Published by Francesco Berti (biographical details | all objects)
Production place
Published in Bologna (all objects)
(Europe,Italy,Emilia-Romagna,Bologna (province),Bologna (city))
Date
1650-1699
Schools /Styles
Italian (all objects)
Description
Tarot pack: complete pack of 78 playing-cards bound (at the British Museum) as a small book
Hand-coloured woodcut
Backs printed with a figure of a woman, hand-coloured, lettered "Al Leone"
Late 17th Century
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: The 2 of cups is lettered "Tarochi Fini Di Francesco Berti In Bologna". The 2 of coins is lettered "Carte Fine"; and the 4 of coins "Al Leone".
If it has two moors, it wouldn't be from before 1725, right? The dating 17th century - again - is too optimistic.Print made by Anonymous (all objects)
Published in Bologna (all objects)
17th Century
Tarot pack: incomplete pack with 38 of 62 miniature playing-cards for tarocchino pasted (at the British Museum) into a small book.
Etching
Backs plain
...
Dimensions
Height: 30 millimetres
Width: 17 millimetres ... indeed rather small
..
This pack is believed to be a tarocchino pack (which has 62 cards) as two Moors or satraps replace Le Pape and La Papesse in the attuti suit.
The second deck with miniature cards is very near to the Leone deck shown by Andrea Vitali at pp. 49-58 (btw I found a "Bonia Docet 1770" - ? possibly 1772 ? at one of the Fante cards p. 56 in Viali's book).Ross G. R. Caldwell wrote:Vitali illustrates another Al Leone (Francesco Berti), a Tarocchino Bolognese, on pp.49-59.
Obviously he didn't include the French titled Tarot de Marseille-style deck for export since it isn't a Tarocchino. Possibly it was meant for the French-speaking part of Piedmont.
The second BM one has a Moor, but is single headed, so it should be between 1725 and around 1790, when Bolognese cardmakers started making doubled-headed cards.
Huck wrote:Yes, the dating is WRONG. It falls in the category of decks, which had been also produced at Trieste and other locations, all around 1800.
Here is another deck, perhaps more interesting. Miniature Tarocchi cards, also from Bologna, 38 cards only:
Unluckily one doesn't recognize too much.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/s ... umpages=10
If it has two moors, it wouldn't be from before 1725, right? The dating 17th century - again - is too optimistic.Print made by Anonymous (all objects)
Published in Bologna (all objects)
17th Century
Tarot pack: incomplete pack with 38 of 62 miniature playing-cards for tarocchino pasted (at the British Museum) into a small book.
Etching
Backs plain
...
Dimensions
Height: 30 millimetres
Width: 17 millimetres ... indeed rather small
..
This pack is believed to be a tarocchino pack (which has 62 cards) as two Moors or satraps replace Le Pape and La Papesse in the attuti suit.
Ross G. R. Caldwell wrote:Thanks sembei, that's beautiful!
I wish I could understand what the "sonnet" is ... it is at least a very creative use of the trumps and court cards in the "tarocchi appropriati" genre (not really the best name here), from Bologna in the 19th century.
And the sonnet is this:A poem, composed about love using the names of the Triumphs, can be found in a miscellany of writings in prose and verse datable to the XVII to XIX century treating of religious, political and satirical matters in large part concerning the top Pontiffs (11). The work, whose title is Con li Trionfi e con le figure del Gioco Tarocchino in quest’Ordine disposti, si descrive poeticamente la forza d’Amore, (With the Triumphs and with figures of the Game Tarocchino in this order disposed, the strength of love is poetically described), describes Love driving his chariot and striking with his arrows men's hearts without distinction, affirming the madness of those people who think of withstanding him, since Love rules over everything that the sun and the moon illuminate; it concludes with the affirmation that there exists no greater power than him in the world.
http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=243&lng=ENG
Thanks - I recognize it now, in Vitali and Zanetti, no. 7. I wish they had included the illustration!sembei wrote: And the sonnet is this:
http://www.letarot.it/cgi-bin/pages/sag ... onetto.jpg