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http://tarotpedia.com -----> search-key "Boiardo"
happen exiting developments. The Tarocchi poem of Count Matteo Maria Boiardo awakes to some life in English language, after it had known in Italian long ago and somehow been rather overlooked by nearly everybody ... yes, a very curious Tarot and hardly of worth for anything. And as historical source to understand the origin of Tarot ... not important, much too curious a thing, leave it aside, nobody is interested. So - it seems - have thought 1000's of Tarot researchers all the time, researching for the orign of Tarot here and there, above, below, right and left, in front and behind: Where is the mystery?
Boiardo was overlooked - how else is it explainable, that a complete text - a short one, but with 262 lines poem not counting title etc. about "real playing card history", and that means it's one the longest between all this collected snippets of playing card history, here a few words, there a bill and here a prohibition, and perhaps occasionally 3 sentences together - stayed untranslated all the time.
And it was discussed in 1000,s of words various questions, for instance, what does this suits mean, existed card divination already in 15th century, was there something like Kabbala connected to all this Tarot stuff.
Boiardo was overlooked ...
Well, it's my prophetic day ... we've there somebody, who describes - in poetical form - what he understands with his suits ... and so should these suits be probably the best and most well known suits of 15th century ... as we've no better suit descriptions of others as far I know. So we get there a "real picture" of that, what really had been in a 15th century mind. Perhaps somebody understands that this not the answer ... no, this is the answer, at least it's the best available..
Then we've there ... as I already stated, it's my day of prophecy ... a really discussion object, if this deck was not a divination deck or - careful expressed - if the poem didn't intend to become a divination deck once. And we've the "kabbalistical aspects very nearby" .... we'll have to discuss the kabbalistical question, but now not as a dream and mere postulation from 19th century, but "as it really was" with names which are known and not hidden mysterious persons.
And this poem will have a good chance to be once accepted as the "second" oldest which had 22 cards ... well, it was at the beginning not a deck, at least there are signs, that this deck was not produced, but only stayed an "unfulfilled" Tarot project long years with a late "after the death of the author" production.
So I predict .. well, the world is full of divining Tarot readers, why shouldn't occasionally a humble Tarot historian divine a little, even when he reads only in other cards like the Boiardo deck, hm, I shouldn't take my mouth too full ... some new insights ...
http://tarotpedia.com -----> search-key "Boiardo"
happen exiting developments. The Tarocchi poem of Count Matteo Maria Boiardo awakes to some life in English language, after it had known in Italian long ago and somehow been rather overlooked by nearly everybody ... yes, a very curious Tarot and hardly of worth for anything. And as historical source to understand the origin of Tarot ... not important, much too curious a thing, leave it aside, nobody is interested. So - it seems - have thought 1000's of Tarot researchers all the time, researching for the orign of Tarot here and there, above, below, right and left, in front and behind: Where is the mystery?
Boiardo was overlooked - how else is it explainable, that a complete text - a short one, but with 262 lines poem not counting title etc. about "real playing card history", and that means it's one the longest between all this collected snippets of playing card history, here a few words, there a bill and here a prohibition, and perhaps occasionally 3 sentences together - stayed untranslated all the time.
And it was discussed in 1000,s of words various questions, for instance, what does this suits mean, existed card divination already in 15th century, was there something like Kabbala connected to all this Tarot stuff.
Boiardo was overlooked ...
Well, it's my prophetic day ... we've there somebody, who describes - in poetical form - what he understands with his suits ... and so should these suits be probably the best and most well known suits of 15th century ... as we've no better suit descriptions of others as far I know. So we get there a "real picture" of that, what really had been in a 15th century mind. Perhaps somebody understands that this not the answer ... no, this is the answer, at least it's the best available..
Then we've there ... as I already stated, it's my day of prophecy ... a really discussion object, if this deck was not a divination deck or - careful expressed - if the poem didn't intend to become a divination deck once. And we've the "kabbalistical aspects very nearby" .... we'll have to discuss the kabbalistical question, but now not as a dream and mere postulation from 19th century, but "as it really was" with names which are known and not hidden mysterious persons.
And this poem will have a good chance to be once accepted as the "second" oldest which had 22 cards ... well, it was at the beginning not a deck, at least there are signs, that this deck was not produced, but only stayed an "unfulfilled" Tarot project long years with a late "after the death of the author" production.
So I predict .. well, the world is full of divining Tarot readers, why shouldn't occasionally a humble Tarot historian divine a little, even when he reads only in other cards like the Boiardo deck, hm, I shouldn't take my mouth too full ... some new insights ...