Re: Trionfi.com: News and Updates
Posted: 10 Mar 2021, 09:30
It seems to me that your cut-off of 1500 or so prejudges the situation. Since you include "minchiate" as one of the tarot words, it is important to know that that word has a longer known history than the "tarocchi" form. This is important because it may well be that "tarocchi" became to the 78 card deck as "minchiate" already was to a deck with more trumps than that, the names for both games playing on words for "fool" or "foolish" (minchione = fool). "Minchiate" words go back at least to 1466, the Pulci letter to il Magnifico-to-be. Although the original of the Pulci letter is lost, the plausibility of its existence is enhanced by two other occurrences of "minchiate" just slightly later in the same century. For 1477 see Pratesi in The Flaying-Card, Vol. 19, No. 1 (1990) pp. 7-17, at http://naibi.net/A/30-PRISECO-Z.pdf. For 1471 see his article in L'As de Trefle, No. 52 (1993) pp. 9-10, at http://naibi.net/A/51-JURON-Z.pdf.
I have translated Pratesi's "1499-1506: Nuove Informazione sulle carte fiorentine" at http://pratesitranslations.blogspot.com ... on-on.html. This translation supersedes the one I did originally on THF.
I have translated Pratesi's "1499-1506: Nuove Informazione sulle carte fiorentine" at http://pratesitranslations.blogspot.com ... on-on.html. This translation supersedes the one I did originally on THF.