The thread you link to is not exactly the same as the sort of thread I was hoping to start. It's not so much the buying aspect, I was hoping people would discuss them in terms of their part in Tarot History as well as actually reading with them, methods and comparisons in terms of symbolism, rather than which one is preferable taste-wise.
Was there a nearly three hundred year gap (bar the Mitelli deck) between the Visconti/Ferarra decks and the Lombardy, which I believe is from around 1780, where decks were not created or perhaps didn't survive? What was happening in Italy during the time in between? From the notes I have, there were French, Belgian and Swiss decks at that time.
Also, if comparing these deck, as I do with the Marseilles for recognition of which type they can be classified under as well as the symbolism, which other Italian decks are out there so that this exercise could be done?