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In the 2007 book "The History of the Tarot", scholar Giordano Berti proposes that the deck was produced between 1442 and 1447, because the denari (coin) cards bear the recto and verso of the golden florin coined by F. M. Visconti in 1442 and withdrawn from circulation at his death, in 1447.
The oldest surviving tarot cards are the 15 or so decks of the Visconti-Sforza Tarot painted in the mid-15th century for the rulers of the Duchy of Milan. [15] In 15th century Italy, the set of cards that was included in tarot packs, including trumps, seems to have been consistent, even if naming and ordering varied. There are two main ...
Articles about specific cards (or groups of cards) from Tarot decks for divination. For tarot cards of the type used for playing card games see Category:Tarot playing card decks Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tarot cards .
Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby practitioners use tarot cards to purportedly gain insight into the past, present or future. They formulate a question, then draw cards to interpret them for this end. A traditional tarot deck consists of 78 cards, which can be split into two groups, the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana.
Tarot cards have two distinct uses. As playing cards they were invented in Europe in the 15th century for playing games and are still used for that purpose. From the late 18th century, certain Italian-suited tarot packs were utilised for fortune telling - a practice known as tarotology - nowadays bespoke packs are produced specifically for this purpose.
The earliest reference to tarot cards, then known as trionfi, is dated to 1440 when a notary in Florence recorded the transfer of two decks to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. [ 1 ] The word minchiate comes from a dialect word meaning " nonsense " or "trifle", derived from mencla, the vulgar form of mentula , a Latin word for "phallus". [ 2 ]
The Major Arcana cards redesigned by Roberto Viesi. The Major Arcana are the named cards in a cartomantic tarot pack.There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (or 1 to 21, with the Fool being left unnumbered).
Pierluca Zizzi is a researcher in the evolution of consciousness, and a writer. [3] He is the author of the book Divinare per Tutti and a series of cards decks for divination (Ascension Tarot, Infinity Tarot, Egyptian Tarot, Folk cards of destiny, Medieval fortune telling cards, Opposition Tarot in 2021 and others).