New at Trionfi.com

Huck

Murner, some short news

Some new Murner cards (see "Examples") from a didactical game from ca. 1507. Murner was accused as sorcerer for them in Krakau, but later excused.

http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/murner/index.html

Some short News:

http://trionfi.com/0/n/

with some informative links to the "The Ninth Gate" from Roman Polanski (used Tarot motifs as topic)
 

Huck

I added 5 older Tarot decks, 14 modern Tarot decks and 9 unusual decks with divinatory function to the Tarot Museum:

http://trionfi.com/0/s/b

the links to the decks are in the left upper corner ("Recently added"). The same list is in the Tarot News

http://trionfi.com/0/n/
 

Cerulean

Thanks Huck for all your hard work...

I'm going to browse when I have time.

Regards,

Cerulean
 

Huck

Various new or updated articles at
http://trionfi.com/0/p/01/
to the left in the menu (theme: more or less playing cards)

We started to collect some material to Italian cities
http:/trionfi.com/0/l/50/
(playing card prohibitions mainly, documents texts)

Slowly growing: Tarot researchers
http://trionfi.com/0/y/02/
 

Huck

Lothar (autorbis) at the group LTarot announced:

"The old year passes away, a new one comes.

I announce, that trionfi.com will attack this year the common places of Tarot History theories.

One statement - no one involved wil be surprized - will be, that the 5x14-theory is a little more than a theory.

A second statement will be - this may surprize some more - that we've identified the wedding deck of June 1468.
Well ... no Tarot deck of 15th century till now has been dated really. This is the first, which could be placed in the timeline: June 1468. And I assume, that this is likely the first deck with 22 trumps. And this is a revolution.

A 3rd statement will say, that the French king Louis XI. participated in the construction of Tarot in a specific manner.
A lot of persons have desired in the past, that there was a French participation. I don't know, why ... mostly the idea was, that somehow Albiginenser or Gringonneur or ... No, but we say with some good reason, that it was Louis XI. With some luck we've a date and with some other luck we also have the painter and some data to the action. Another revolution.

And we will state (4th statement), that there was a natural female participation in the construction of Tarot. A thick female influence, not a small one. Courtly men played chess, playing cards were mostly women business.
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And some more interesting things. I announce a serious attack ... :)

Guten Rutsch"
 

coredil

It sounds really "vielversprechend" (promising) :)

Louis XI? The one who used the "fillettes" (hanging little metal cages) to put his prisoners?
Not really a very nice person. :(

Best regards and "Guten Rutsch" too. :)
 

Huck

coredil said:
It sounds really "vielversprechend" (promising) :)

Louis XI? The one who used the "fillettes" (hanging little metal cages) to put his prisoners?
Not really a very nice person. :(

Best regards and "Guten Rutsch" too. :)

... :) Surely a difficult person. But in a specific time somehow the "first ranked" person in Europe, surely more important than the contemporary German Emperor - at least from the perspective of Italy.

His mother appears in playing card documents.
His wife appears in playing card documents.

... well, again, it are the female highstanding persons at the courts, which have the playing card interests.
The sister of Bona of Savoyen was Queen of France, so Bona lived at the court of France under the influence of Louis XI. She married Galeazzo Maria Sforza in June 1468 - surely a political action, which was arranged by Louis XI. himself.
It was natural for a highstanding bride to have own playing cards at her marriage.
So she advanced to the Milanese court and influenced the style of Italian Tarocchi cards. Naturally she imported a small part of French style ... with some luck this stayed influential in the later development.
 

firemaiden

Mamma mia, this is getting exciting, Huck. Guten Rutsch!
 

jmd

Looking forward to a more detailed presentation, Huck!