New at Trionfi.com

hi,

we were so happy to find the Merlin text in the web, a French text about playing card history from 1860.

It also contains many pictures ... reproductions of cards. Between them are 9 cards of the Boiardo Tarocchi, ... which are now here:

http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/boiardo/

Till now we only knew 6 of them.

The Merlin-Text is here:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1232440.r=tarots.langEN

The pictures are in the second half of the book.

Thanks very much Huck. I had it in photocopy but volume of plates was missing - also Merlin's original article from 1859, which included some plates but not so many.

Some appear defective in this new volume - the S Series "Prima Causa" is missing two of the Evangelical animals, for instance.

Ross

I think, it was discussed here before the production ...

... two youtube-videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gH-OAXQbew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKffJKg9yPk&feature=related

produced by http://tarocchino.com

Early notes of the Trionfi game:

http://trionfi.com/0/e/13b/
... 1455 (preaching against Trionfi cards)
http://trionfi.com/0/e/26b/
... 1461 The child Valerio Marcello played with visitors of his father

Summary to the 15th century Trionfi documents by Ross Caldwell:
http://ludustriumphorum.blogspot.com/

... a lot of the engravings of the "Meister der Spielkarten" are at ...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Meister_der_Spielkarten

A rather unknown early type of hermit from a Tarot of the Besancon variant produced in ca. 1760 by the German card producer Göbl.

This and other cards are at display at

http://trionfi.com/0/i/c/ALL-78/

... ... which was more or less full of broken links recently, but has recovered. The Museum is in an updating process.

The iconography section was updated, with a new (shorter) address:

http://trionfi.com/i/

Included are the articles of Andrea Vitali, which now present all 22 major arcana.

http://trionfi.com/i/tarot-andrea-vitali/

with starting addresses for the single articles in this form:

http://trionfi.com/i/00/v.php
http://trionfi.com/i/01/v.php
http://trionfi.com/i/02/v.php
etc ... till
http://trionfi.com/i/21/v.php

News of the day:

"Tarot" becomes a horror film, but Dennis Trillo had a good reading.

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/21637...nd-future-revealed-through-tarot-card-reading

They even had tarot cards made specifically for the film.

"As to whether “Tarot” could have a negative effect on fortune tellers or tarot card readers, Jun Lana pointed out, “That won’t happen because we did our research well. I don’t like people saying negative things about tarot cards because of our film. We actually hired a consultant who’s always on the set.

He guided us especially when it comes to reading tarot cards. Also, the story is really the story of this one character and her experience with tarot cards so it doesn’t apply to the tarot card readers.” "

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/215948/tarot-scarier-more-entertaining-kulam

... .-) ... always nice, if one can say, "we did our research well".

Here is a trailer, not too impressive:

http://www.clickthecity.com/clipcast/?v=1146



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Btw. the Mantegna Tarocchi collection is meanwhile presented
in the Tarot museum:

http://trionfi.com/i/mantegna-tarocchi/

On a market for used things I found a remake (1998) of an old Tarot deck from ca. 1790, together with a book of not much worth in German language. I paid 4 Euro for both. Researching the web for it, I found that it is variously offered for not much money, especially German amazon.
Peter Ortmann is the author of the book, the deck is called "das lombardische Tarot", but actually it's a sort of Tarot de Marseille deck made in Trieste, Fabrica di Angelo Valla, similar to
..
http://trionfi.com/m/d00586.htm
http://trionfi.com/m/d02062.htm
..
these decks. The original is in Deutsches Spielkartenmuseum.

Thanks for those links Huck,

Although the cards of the unknown deck (at the second link) are more clearly coloured, I do prefer the faces in the deck at the first link "David Berti" (Bologna, Italy) deck "Tarot of Marseilles". They're are much nicer, being finely drawn with pleasing expressions.

Which of these two decks at Trionfi most closely resembles the deck that you bought? (Hoping it's the deck at the first link).

Bee