"Do I have to?" Age 16, marriage to Francesco Sforza, Cremona, 25 October, 1441.

Michael Dummett has gone to his reward. He would be the first to admit that his work on the game of Tarot was not the most important work...

Explaining the Tarot: Two Italian Renaissance Essays on the Meaning of the Tarot Pack edited, translated and commented by Ross Sinclair Cald...

In his 1985 book The Tarot Trumps , John Shephard reproduces a 1488 Venetian engraving of the Triumph of Love from Petrarch's Trionfi ....

I’ve been considering my plotting of the earliest evidence for tarot some more. Here are some conclusions. The first consideration is the pe...

Thanks to my good friend Robert, I was able to get a copy of Nancy Marino’s article Fernando de la Torre’s “Juego de naipes”, A Game of Love...

Fernando de la Torre (1416-c. 1475), Juego de Naypes , c. 1450. This is a poetic interpretation of the Spanish (Castillian) 48 card pack, de...

I recently got a copy of a mid-20th century French Tarot classic, Gérard van Rijnberk's Le Tarot: Histoire, Iconographie, Esotérisme . H...

Thierry Depaulis responded to my post on the Turfan Card with an article he wrote in 2004 for the bulletin L'As de Trèfle (n° 18, juil...

Having been under the impression that the only references to Tarot in Spain were late and uninformative (for example see Dummett Game of Tar...

Number 13, Friday the 13th and the number 17 The Death card is so firmly associated with the number 13 in the Tarot that most people simply ...

This card is one from a set of nine in the Deutsches Spielkarten Museum in Leinfelden, Germany. It is anybody's guess whether these car...

I really like this Chinese card found at Turfan in 1905, by Albert von Le Coq, head of the German archeological expedition there in the earl...