Yes, temperance = chastity. At least, I meant them as equivalent. I said "temperance" because I had just been looking at Corregio's "Triumph of Virtue" in Mantua, in which the bridle represented one of the four virtues, i.e. temperance (see detail at http://forum.tarothistory.com...

Alain wrote I have a question : my English is not good enough to conclude . Did Jess Karlin discover : "tare=deduction" - it seems to be an old etymology. But maybe am I wrong... Tare=deduction is old, to be sure; it is given in my Webster's New World Dictionary , published 1967. tare n. F...

Your hypothesis is quite interesting. The only problem that I see is in identifying the Moon lady in that particular deck with the Virgin--as much as I like identifying cards with the Virgin (e.g. Popess and Empress in the Marseille decks). Why does the PMB lady look so glum, if she's going to give ...

According to http://books.google.com/books?id=2p8MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT581&lpg=PT581&dq=%22mundus+alter+et+idem%22+Josph+Hall&source=bl&ots=M05DpG9yTn&sig=CgF1JfQeyb7rHLAOdI3SOCjZMbE&hl=en&ei=7PSrTJD2OoK-sAPOgInaAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&...

Atteilla wrote about how to use Piquet, the 32 card deck, for divination in his first book, 1773. http://books.google.com/books?id=CI85AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=etteilla&hl=en&ei=SigiTOf5D9SssAbxrv3lBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCQ#...

I think that the wings on the horses are a tip-off that the designer had Plato's Phaedrus in mind, in its myth much discussed at the time, to refer to the chariots of the gods and eternal archetypes. The later Chariot images, with horses without wings, are a reference to a later part of the same myt...

The earliest extant tarot deck, the CY, is lacking a Justice card. The other virtue cards stick to the medieval imagery associated with them: fortitude with its woman holding the jaws of a lion, faith with its cross and cup, charity with its suckling infant, hope with its star. Perhaps there was a J...

Well, I can't locate my source for his periods of attendance in Florence. I will keep looking. What I thought I read was that he was back and forth between Germany and Florence. I didn't mean to imply that he was there the whole time. (I'm afraid I don't have a good sense of what information people ...

I see, from following out Huck's reference to Toscanelli, that my time-line left out some important stuff. Besides what Huck pointed out, I left out Cusa, whose On Learned Ignorance would have had its impact, at least in general terms. And the election of Rodrigo Borgia is worth mentioning for its c...

Well, yes, some sites say Bonifacio. Others say Benedetto. The ones I happened to be looking at just then said Benedetto. I stand corrected: One or more of the Bembo probably did the Golden Room. I think the main reason people say Benedetto was that there used to be an altarpiece there in the Torrec...