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"