Huck
Change Visconti-Snake ---> Devil
Well, that is not a settled question and answer, it's a provocation to start and induce research about it.
Lothar suggested 1500 - French occupation. But nonetheless - it might happened quite different.
We've the list of the preacher - this is said to have been before 1500. There is a devil in it. Is the dating of the list secure? Surely not.
We've the "Hexenhammer" appearing in the 80ies ... perhaps already then a lot of things have changed, perhaps "Devil" became a theme then.
We've a Milanese tradition and a Ferrarese tradition and both have the devil in it. And both have a different number-row, the Ferrarese interpretation is not like "Galeazzo's scheme". How did this happen? This must have some logic.
Milan and Ferrara prodúced Trionfi decks already in the 50ies, Ferarra already in the 40ies but probably only very few. Matters developed at the courts and probably stayed at the courts for a time. But Trionfi was also a term in Florence and Florence had no court. These decks had "either 14" or were generally creative in a perhaps very broad sense, even the existence of 22-versions can't be excluded.
The first 22 in our research in "Trionfo-context" appeared in 1454 (!) - but it appears in context of Johannes-festivities in Florence, it seems, that the number of the used chariots was 22. But it was a religious festivity and somehow it is to exspect, that it was quite different to that, what we exspect as "Tarot cards" motives. But Boiardo's 22 is also very different. And there is no sign, that this religious "Trionfo" was accompanied by playing cards ... but what about a series of pictures, showing the different chariots? Using the number 22 might have wandered from object-group to object group.
So there are a lot of questions. The Trionfo-idea developed in 15th century ... and the cards accompanied them in unclear and probably "creative" manner. Assuming early "standards" guides research in the wrong direction.
And observe, that also the Germans had a Trionfo-deck at the Habsburger-marriage in 1496. We know the cards to it and we know, that this was a card deck without trumps. So even the existence of any "major Arcana" was a rule.
Well, that is not a settled question and answer, it's a provocation to start and induce research about it.
Lothar suggested 1500 - French occupation. But nonetheless - it might happened quite different.
We've the list of the preacher - this is said to have been before 1500. There is a devil in it. Is the dating of the list secure? Surely not.
We've the "Hexenhammer" appearing in the 80ies ... perhaps already then a lot of things have changed, perhaps "Devil" became a theme then.
We've a Milanese tradition and a Ferrarese tradition and both have the devil in it. And both have a different number-row, the Ferrarese interpretation is not like "Galeazzo's scheme". How did this happen? This must have some logic.
Milan and Ferrara prodúced Trionfi decks already in the 50ies, Ferarra already in the 40ies but probably only very few. Matters developed at the courts and probably stayed at the courts for a time. But Trionfi was also a term in Florence and Florence had no court. These decks had "either 14" or were generally creative in a perhaps very broad sense, even the existence of 22-versions can't be excluded.
The first 22 in our research in "Trionfo-context" appeared in 1454 (!) - but it appears in context of Johannes-festivities in Florence, it seems, that the number of the used chariots was 22. But it was a religious festivity and somehow it is to exspect, that it was quite different to that, what we exspect as "Tarot cards" motives. But Boiardo's 22 is also very different. And there is no sign, that this religious "Trionfo" was accompanied by playing cards ... but what about a series of pictures, showing the different chariots? Using the number 22 might have wandered from object-group to object group.
So there are a lot of questions. The Trionfo-idea developed in 15th century ... and the cards accompanied them in unclear and probably "creative" manner. Assuming early "standards" guides research in the wrong direction.
And observe, that also the Germans had a Trionfo-deck at the Habsburger-marriage in 1496. We know the cards to it and we know, that this was a card deck without trumps. So even the existence of any "major Arcana" was a rule.