Rosanne said:
Thanks Huck!
I think it is a bit rum( sneakily odd) of the author to use cards from 1725, to illustrate a point of debate about the origins of Tarot.
True ... it's too far off. The whole runs in the year, when Bolognese card makers are forbidden to use Pope and Papesse and they replace Empress-Emperor-Pope-Papesse against 4 Moors. So it's a sort of "reformation deck" ... possibly even an ironic reaction. The whole row of the trumps is confused.
If it is thought that Education cards or Naibi were combined with 56 numerals in the 15th Century to create Tarot- then it would seem that a 14th/15th century example would be important. Every other plate in the book has accurate provenance and date.
~Rosanne
Well ... take the Boiardo and Sola Busca deck. The player is confronted with a lot of persons of history. Perhaps he knows some, but probably not all. So the deck helps to know these persons and the player automatic adapts "educational content". The socalled Mantegna Tarocchi is similar. The Michelino deck teaches "Greek Gods".
And the usual Tarot (that what we see as usual Tarot, but ... as discussed by us ... there is in the begin no usual Tarot), this developed in the gray zone between "card prohibition" and "allowed game" and a socially accepted game was chess.
So for a strong part it developed from a chess perspective, in some cases combining it with the "new idea" of Trionfi celebrations and contents of Petrarca's poem "Trionfi".
And beside this education the decks presented heraldic, which in the modern allegory would be the "who's the boss here" - question and has its similarity to the logi of Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Mercedes and Ford and to the presidential campaigns of Bush and Obama of nowadays. So it educated economy and politic.
I don't know, if we have the same understanding of "Naibi". La baraja, juego de cartas and juago de
naipes are modern Spanish expressions for a card deck. In older texts the word "naipes" took variants in spelling, so also "Naibi" and this word and its variations appeared also occasionally elsewhere, also in Italy (especially famous: 1379 Viterbo).
There is some suspicion from our side, that "naipes" / "Naibi" might have been used for saraszen cards or cards in the Latin suit and other decks were addressed with carta, but it's only suspicion. Naipes was not used in Germany and other Northern countries, as far I know.