... :-) ... it's good for you, that you still have a last hand in the production process. And it's good for you that you seem to accept advice. My first advice ... take Ross as your mentor, not me, in the case, that Ross agrees. My position is rather radical, and it would give your position only a v...

i can see that some of the ideas i have come across from other sources will find opposition in scholarly circles such as these forums. i applaud all of you for the extent you have looked into this subject. i never have presented myself as an expert in the tarot and concede that many people within t...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Castello_di_Torrechiara.JPG/800px-Castello_di_Torrechiara.JPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrechiara The owner was also in possession of Castello Roccabianca, which contained a playing card scene. His lover once had been a lady of honor for...

The appearance of one or two "bad apples" doesn't make a whole apple-tree bad. I would be really interested to know your third bad view on Tarot or Trionfi cards during 15th century, of two I know myself and they includes that, what you quoted. I can point to "6 allowances" of Tr...

Usually the cities made prohibitions, not the church. Often this were reduced prohibitions, either against specific games or mostly against too high gambling. The behavior of the cities differed, even if specific cities were political united, each city (often) had a local law (for instance in the Fl...

Got that? ... :-) ... NOOOO ... These people in 15th century occasionally take too much words, so that my mind gets tired and I get nothing (a special friend of this "too many words" is Cusanus, it's horrifiying). I then take short ways to keep my mind functioning. I (try to) understand t...

Yes, may be++. Momo's speech in the second chapter is very clear here. I also find interesting your assumptions about Momo and the Fool in this deck. We need more documents about Diogenes in Ferrara about 1470. Another pictorial or literary documents we can compare. Diogenes is a "funny" ...

I know the story from Klaus Schelle, Die Sforza, a German book. So likely, it's an old story, not depending on an English author. Muzio Attendola Sforza http://www.condottieridiventura.it/condottieri/s/1843%20%20%20%20%20%20MUZIO%20ATTENDOLO%20SFORZA%20%20Di%20Cotignola.htm [May 1412] Defeziona nel ...

I miss a note about an "Isis show" (poem, theater play or something like this) around 1445 in Ferrara ... It might be interesting to add the following observation. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5e7P4Y3Wo3w/TJlK435adqI/AAAAAAAACWA/Kb50PwP2bYs/s1600/IsisdETSM.jpg At http://forum.tarothistory.co...

Rather good work, Mike ... :-) ... I'll love timelines. I miss a note about an "Isis show" (poem, theater play or something like this) around 1445 in Ferrara ... Francesco Ariosti, uncle of the great Lodovico Ariosto, wrote Isis, which was performed before Lionello d'Este in 1444.8 Isis, a...