I have been looking at a translation of Pier Antonio Viti's rules and there is one puzzling problem that I have hit regarding the third part of the game. The original from http://trionfi.com/0/h/03/ : E cum le ritenute carte in mano farassi un altro gioco in tal modo. Ciascuno guarderà le carte sue,...

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it. Depaulis referred to it as Ferrarese in 2009. As he is one of the co-authors, did he change his opinion or was it the other co-authors that challenged the provenance?

I have taken a look at all four volumes and only volume 2 mentions the deck. A picture of it appears two pages later but doesn't show any queens. I may have to inquire directly.

I have been looking for information on an anonymous discorso from Ferrara circa 1570 titled `Discorso perche fosse trovato il giuoco, et particolarmente quello del Tarocco`. Is the anonymous discorso discussed in the second half of this book what I have been seeking?

Did he describe the queens? Were they taken from another pattern?

Finally, from Oneglia in Liguria is the only example known to me of a tarot deck with Spanish suits. It is by Giacomo Recchi, whose name and city appear on a panel of the Ace of Coins; a specimen is in the collection of Stuart Kaplan, who dates it to 1820 because of the stamp tax of the kingdom of ...

One of Dummett's unsolved problems involves the type of game played in Sardinia. On page 10 of "A History of Games...", he wrote that a single deck "intended for Sardinia" is the only known example of a Spanish-suited tarot deck. He did not provide any details or sources for this...