Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Short version, The Renaissance philosophy of cartomancy. The main argument may be easier to follow than in the long version, perhaps at the expense of some of the logic and coloration. In Italian in Il Castello dei Tarocchi. In Italian with English translation, there have been several essays. by Andrea Vitali, and one by Terry .

Monday, April 28, 2014. Ron Decker is a well known tarot historian, with publications going back to the 1970s and a frequent collaborator in some of the now-classic works of tarot history, most notably Wicked Pack of Cards. With Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett.

Monday, May 28, 2012. Cards 1-8 as the Chaos plus the 7 days of creation. NOTE; THIS BLOG READS LIKE A BOOK, FROM THE TOP DOWN. I am by no mean.

Thursday, July 23, 2015. php? He also published this graph as part of an essay in The Playing Card. I want to say a few things about it. The point of the graph is to show that the tarot was most likely invented a little before 1440. I think it shows no such thing. Another factor that would tend to reduce the number of records wou.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016. aspx? And at the bottom, Alain has translated some of of my essay into French. This post last modified Nov.

The Christian Basis of the Tarot. Sunday, November 6, 2016. This blog is devoted to exploring Christian imagery and ideas in relation to the historical tarot, i. , before 1781, when it became acceptable, at least in Northern Europe, to find pagan and Jewish symbolism in these cards. This is not to exclude such influences before 1781, but simply to focus here on the Christian ones. Brian Innes, I thi.

Monday, July 9, 2012. Let us look at the text, wh.

Sunday, July 1, 2012. You read this blog like a book, from the top down.