I bought the Lo Scarabeo version (simply don't have the money to buy one of the more expensive versions). I dislike the border and the keywords, so I'll trim them off (after copying the keywords on a list so that I still have them somewhere if I wish to compare my own interpretations with them).
As a student, I wrote a paper about the Hypnerotomachia and was quite obsessed with it. As art historian specialized on medieval and Renaissance painting, the whole Pagan and Christian iconography thing really fascinates me, and I can't wait to dig in. Thank you for the excellent links and ideas given in this thread, it's wonderful to see so much knowledge accumulated here on AT.
I noticed that some of the cards may have inspired Robert Place - L'Impeso looks like St. Blandina in the Tarot of Saints (
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f4/2b/9a/f42b9a42be81fac24281824f453ae4cb.jpg ), and also Luna reminds me of some cards... have to look them up again. Robert Place knows his tarot history, of course - I'll take out his books, too.
In short, I'm extremely happy with my purchase. I'm on a strict budget so I can fulfill my desire for historical decks only via mainstream purchases but I'm really grateful to Lo Scarabeo that they published so many wonderful decks over the years. I wish they'd re-publish also those that are OOP.
I'm so happy to hear that this is also a good reading deck. I always like to read with my decks, not only put them into a pretty bag and forget them.