Only the first and 2nd post were changed. The idea is to improve the first post as a sort of introduction.
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Picture material
World Web Playing Card Museum
http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05113/d05113.htm
http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05114/d05114.htm
http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks07/d05115/d05115.htm
http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks05/d02057/d02057.htm
British Museum
general research: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/c ... =minchiate
Special deck: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/c ... id=3058908
More Views to this
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/c ... more-views
Gallica collection
http://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/s ... 2image%22)
Minchiate Etruria
http://tarot.rseitz.com/wp-content/uplo ... truria.jpg
Endebrock collection
http://www.endebrock.de/coll/pages/i31.html
Minchiate Francesi
discussed at viewtopic.php?f=11&t=782&p=11174#p11174
41-trumps-version: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b1 ... rk=21459;2
21 trumps version: http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre ... hemindefer
The 42-trumps-version had added the card Chaos
Possibly the oldest Minchiate: the socalled "Rosenwald Tarocchi"



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Meanwhile a lot of things have happened around the game Germini / Minchiate. Franco Pratesi has restarted his researches on playing cards (November 2011) and Minchiate became a longer time his major topic. Trionfi.com once organized his various contributions to this point (till end of 2013):
http://trionfi.com/n/130903/
(19 articles sorting according the time-related topics)
Franco changed then from English to Italian language in 2014 and produced these articles at ...
http://naibi.net
The years 2014/16 saw these articles specific to "early Minchiate":
Partly these were translated to English by Michael S Howard. See ...1634: Livorno – Minchiate e ganellini
http://www.naibi.net/A/320-GANELLIVO-Z.pdf
Secolo XVI: Firenze – Il nome dei germini
http://www.naibi.net/A/332-GERMINI-Z.pdf
1499-1506: Firenze – Nuove informazioni sulle carte fiorentine.
http://www.naibi.net/A/IPCS44N1.pdf
This article was very important, cause it contained a report about the earliest appearance of Germini in 1506.
It was translated by Michael S. Howard at ...
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1074#p16459
1450, 1473, 1477: Firenze – Leggi sui giochi.
http://www.naibi.net/A/426-FI1473-Z.pdf
It was translated by Michael Howard at ...
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1082#p16591
Trionfi milanesi e fiorentini – ipotesi e commenti.
http://www.naibi.net/A/506-MIFIOR-Z.pdf
This was translated in 2 different parts mixed with discussions
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1086&start=20#p16716
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1086&start=20#p16721
http://www.naibi.net/A/509-VELLETRI-Z.pdf
Sminchiate del Cinquecento.
Il terzo foglio Rosenwald.
http://www.naibi.net/A/516-ROSEN3-Z.pdf
It was translated at ...
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1105&p=17038&hilit ... ald#p17007
Genesi favolosa di trionfi e minchiate
http://www.naibi.net/A/523-FAVOLA-Z.pdf
It was translated at ...
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1120&start=50#p18092
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1100
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In Andrea Vitali's essay collection ...
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=5 (Ialian language)
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=5&lng=ENG (English language, mostly translated by Michael S. Howard)
... I find the following contributions to "early Minchiate" ... with the help of a google command
https://www.google.de/webhp?sourceid=ch ... 0minchiate
... 293 entries, which is naturally "too much". At ...
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=5&lng=ENG
... I find a sorted list of articles:
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=540Minchiate between Game and Literature
Minchiate in Literature
From the XVth to the XIXth century
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=338
Farsa Satyra Morale
"Sminchiata" means stuff for fools
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=255
Very important, cause it contains an early "sminchiate" in c. 1510.
Treatise on the Game of Minchiate
A document on the Game of Minchiate dated to 1716
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=257
Del Minchione
Where we talk about stupid, mad and waster men (In Italian)
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=257
Ganellini seu Gallerini
The game of Minchiate in Genoa, Rome and Palermo (XVII - XVIII)
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=310&lng=ENG
Del 'Minchionare' e della 'Minchionaggine''
Stories of cunning and stupidity (In Italian)
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=383
May cancer come to Goffo and to Tarocco
New documents between history and literature from the XVIth to the XIXth century
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=453&lng=ENG
Una guerresca partita a Trionfi (A warlike game of Triumphs)
Two compositions by Giovanni Petrei - XVIth century (In Italian)
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=515
Il cane di Diogene (Diogenes' Dog)
A satirical-literary text by Francesco Fulvio Frugoni (1687) (In Italian)
(I would be nice, if the entries of the list would contain a link to the relevant article, but this isn't. So the reader at this site has to search it in the longer content. I have added them here.)
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Girolamo Zorli at http://www.tretre.it
***************Varianti italiane del gioco dei Tarocchi. Germini, Minchiate, Ganellini e Gallerini. (2011)
http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del ... gallerini/
I giochi di Francesco Berni (c 1528)
http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del ... i-1528-ca/
Lode della Rovescina (c. 1540-46), by Anton Francesco Grazzini (Firenze 1503- Firenze 1584), detto il Lasca
http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del ... rovescina/
Le Carte Parlanti, o dei giochi di Pietro Aretino (1543)
http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del ... o-aretino/
I Germini sopra quarante meretrice della città di Firenze (1553)
http://www.tretre.it/uploads/media/Germ ... etrici.pdf
Le Minchiate di Paolo Minucci (1688)
http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del ... ucci-1688/
Le regole delle Minchiate di Niccolò Onesti (1716)
http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del ... esti-1716/
Spiegazione del Giuoco del Tarocchino (1746?) by anomino and transribed by Lorenzo Cuppi (with notes on the parola Sminchiate)
http://www.tretre.it/menu/accademia-del ... hino/#c513
Nazario Renzoni - Andrea Ricci
http://germini.altervista.org/
Explanation of the Minchiate Rules