Lo Scarobeo Dante
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 09 Dec 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| JC |
09 Dec 2002 |
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Does anyone else use this deck? I've done two readings with it and I'm wondering if the minors usually mean the same thing as traditional minors. For instance, if I have Satan come up in a reading, does it mean the same thing as it's equivalent, the King os Swords? I feel this deck has value for cartomancy, I'm just not sure how to read it.
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| Cerulean |
12 Dec 2002 |
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I love the deck, but it's a collection point, not really an oracle for me. Dante's Divine Comedy work was so seeped in politics and events and his own journey, that I'm still working through it. Dante's life as a political exile finally ended happily in Ravenna, as his sons/daughter/wife settled there near him after separations of many years. His son 'discovered' the last cantos in a dream and published them a year or two after Dante died--
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Here's a snapshot of what I use it for: since my vision of Dante in my collection, art preferences and style work between Dore and Botticelli, this deck is mostly something that I use as a starting point to focus on certain ideas. For instance, if I were to do my own version of Canto V in Inferno and I were to look at Card 5 in the Dante Deck of Flames/Swords, that's a starting point to look at what Dore and Botticelli did and also commentary on the verse itself.
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Online, there's plenty of help to start your walking through Divine Comedy---Summaries of cantos and pictures
http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/mage/719/dante1/index12.html
Mostly just pictures:
http://jade.ccccd.edu/Andrade/WorldLitI2332/Dante/gallery_dore.html
That's not exactly an answer...but hope it helps.
Mari H.
I hope this helps. I did a review on Amazon.com that suggests an outline book of Dante's life...by someone with the last name of Lewis...I may have said Merwin earlier, but that was wrong.
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