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The oldest group of cards of survival Tarot, called Italian Tarocchi, appears up to now of 1420 to 1450. Form of Tarocchi, Italian, plural of Tarocco also known under the name of Tarock, name German-Austrian and Tarot, French name, is a specific form to also play the package of cards, which in its history was used for various plays of deceive-catch and also for interests and the divination cartomantic, the concrete forms appear at least since the article of Court of Gebelin in the year 1781, as field so that the artists show the specific forms iconographical is often connected to an ideological system in the content, already a strong factor in the first decks known at the 15th century. One records it like one of the oldest types to play of the known packages of cards. The material of play, a deck with usually normal costumes 4x14 and cards Italian of court, which include contrary to other forms a cavallo or a knight, with 21 additional assets and an imbecile; the costumes can differ from other national models is older than the name of the play, which, granting the state running of research, became notorious in the parallel of the year 1505 in France, Taraux and in Ferrare, Italy, like Tarocchi, note of pressure of Tarot, details. A form earlier of the play had the named Trionfi or triumphs, this name developed later as a general limit deceive-to take, German trumpfen, with the English asset and disappeared in its original function like name from deck. This name earlier of the play is initially documented in February 1442, Ferrare document.

Although the objects are relatively released of Italian origin, 28 notes of the Trionfi limit of 1442 - 1463 is counted, it seems, that final named Tarocchi developed starting from the influence of French, Italian loudspeakers of complaint of today that French words with an end - ot had been generally transformed in the ends with - occo and - the occhi. The poèt Berni in 1526 motionless has mockery for this, still new word: To let It look with him, which is satisfied with the play with Tarocco, that the only direction of this word Tarocco, is stupid, idiotic, simple, adjustment to be used only by bakers, shoe-makers, and the vulgar one.

Although the oldest cards that we have are painted with the hand, much of disciples believe that printed or the cards out of wooden of block antedate painted with the hand. However, because the printed cards earliest much-were employed and from lower quality, the printed cards earliest go back to later that painted with the hand by twenty to fifty years so that there is no physical obviousness to show which type of cards were the first to be created.

The typical deck of tarot of 78 cards is structured in two distinct shares. The first, called the cards of asset, is composed of 21 cards without costumes, plus one 22nd card, imbecile, who is sometimes given the value of zero, 0.

The second is composed of 56 cards divided into four costumes of 14 cards each one. The traditional Italian costumes are swords, sticks, coins of currency and cups. In the modern decks of tarot, the costume of sticks is generally called Wands, Rods or the bars, whereas the costume of coins of currency is often called Pentacles or the discs.

Among those which employ cards of Tarot for the divination, the assets are called usually Major Arcana, whereas the other cards are known like minor Arcana., Arcana is the plural form of the arcanum, the significance of closed or secret Latin of word.

The 14 cards in each costume are composed of an ace, nine cards number 2 10, and four cards of court, nondifferent from the structure of the pont/du poker of 52 cards play of the packages of cards, except that pont/du poker playing of the packages of cards have three cards rather than four of court.

The four cards of court, or cards of face of the deck of tarot traditionally include/understand the king, the queen, the knight and the page, or servant. In decks of bridge/poker, the cards of court typically include/understand the king, the queen and the Jack. The Jack corresponds to the page of the deck of tarot.

In the current Anglo-American world, the Tarot is usually seen as the means of the divination, a practice to obtain information of supernatural or different sources, or, in a more modern sight, like psychological tool to reach without knowledge. However, the references early such as a sermon refer only to the use of the cards play-to play and play; and in certain European countries such as France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, like Michael Dummett precise in twelve Tarot Games, 1980, plays of Tarot is largely played always.

The relationship between the cards of Tarot and the cards of play is well documented. To play cards appeared completely suddenly in Christian Europe for period 13751380, after several decades of use in Islamic Spain: to see playing the history of card for the discussion of its origins. The first European sources describe a deck with in general 52 cards, like a modern deck without jokers. 78 the Tarot card resulted to add 21 assets and the imbecile to an alternative early of 56 cards, 14 cards per costume. A greater distribution to play cards in the can of Europe with a certain certainty is given during the following year 1377 and years. The cards of Tarot only developed 40 years of them after, and they are mentioned, probably for the first time, in the text of survival of da Tortona, it of Martiano can find in the translation on the Web. At the beginning, cards of tarot were only known as a trionfi, of the triumphs. Only later made the named tarocchi appear.

The probable date for the text of Tortona of da is between 1418 and 1425, since in 1418 the da confirmed Besozzo de Michelino of painter returned to Milan, and da Tortona de Martiano died in 1425. It cannot prove, naturally, that the cards of Tarot did not exist earlier, but it seems improbable, because the date of the text of Tortona of da of Martiano is at least 15 years earlier than other clear documents of confirmation. Da Tortona describes a deck similar to the cards of Tarot in the specific points, but in other completely different manners. What it describes is more one predevelopment in Tarot that so that we could think as true cards of Tarot. For example, it has only 16 assets; its reasons are not comparable with the common cards of Tarot, they are the Greek gods; and the costumes are not the common Italian costumes, but four kinds of birds.

What makes the deck of Tortona of da similar to the cards of Tarot is that these 16 cards are obviously regarded as cards of asset in a card deck, and that, approximately 25 years after, an almost contemporary speaker, Jacopo Antonio Marcello, called the one triumphorum of ludus - a limit which is regarded as a relatively unquestionable indicator of the Tarot-similar objects when it appears compared to playing cards.

The next documents which seem to confirm the existence of the objects similar to the cards of Tarot are two packages of cards of play of Milan, Brera-Brambrilla and Cary-Yale-Tarocchi - existing, but fragmentary - and three documents, all the court of Ferrare, Italy. The cards of play are naturally not with precision datable, but it is estimated it that they were made with the circa 1440.

The three documents are of January 1, 1441 at July 1442, with the term trionfi initially documented in February 1442. The source of the document as from January 1441, which employed the term Trionfi not, could be regarded as not very sure, however, certain circumstances make it plausible, this it was already a deck of this type developing, the same painter: Sagramoro, the same police chief: of Este de Leonello as in the document of February 1442; this is discussed on the site. After 1442, a longer pause, seven years occurred without any material of confirmation, which does not give any reason to assume a more great distribution of the play in these years.

Until this time all the documents early suitable move at an origin of the cards of Trionfi, posterior cards of Tarocchi in the aristocratic class of the company in Italy, and specifically to the courses of Milan and Ferrare. When, they was the courses most exclusive of their time in Europe. The number of existing decks could have been completely small. The play seems to gain in the importance in the year 1450 - one year of jubilee in Italy, which saw many festivities and traffic of the pélerins.

The frequent documentary evidence according to decks during the time of 1450 to 1463 is documented on the Web at the same place.

In the context given, it is obvious that the special reasons on the assets, which were added to the normal playing cards with a 4x14-structure usual, were ideologically given. Were thought they to show a specific system which could transport messages of different contents; the examples early known show ideas philosophical, social, poetic, astronomical and heraldic, for example, as well as a group of old Roman/Greek/Babylonian heroes who could serve in Ace the content as in the case of Sola-Busca-Tarocchi and poetry of Boiardo Tarocchi.

For example, the early-known deck mentioned above, existing only in its description in book court of Martiano, was produced to show the Greek gods system, an ideological idea at one time when the Greek contents were taken in Italy with enthusiasm. Most probably its production accompanied a triumphal festivity by the police chief Filippo Maria Visconti, who wants to say that the deck had the concrete function to express and to consolidate the political power in Milan, as a communal ground during time also in other productions of art. The 4 costumes showed the birds, which appeared regularly in common Visconti-heraldic, and the specific order used of the gods gives the reason to suppose, which the deck partly should focus, that Visconti were identified like descendants of Jupiter and Venus, what - as in this usual time - were seen not while gods, but as hero, who deified in the past.

This first known deck seems to have had the 10 usual cards of a number, but of the kings only and only 16 assets - the posterior standard, 4x14 + 22 was not arranged and always in 1457 when a document is known, which only speaks about the decks of Trionfi with 70 cards. Until the poetry of Boiardo Tarocchi, produced on an unknown date between 1461 and 1494 and Sola Busca Tarocchi, 1491 any obviousnesses of confirmation for the final standard format with each of the 78 cards misses.

The opinions of the various researchers formulate the cause these facts in the moment running, that the decks of Trionfi of time early had most of the time the cards 5x14 only and that the line of the assets and the imbecile were simply considered while one 5th costume with the preset asset-function.

The oldest cards of survival Tarot are three early with the sets of century of mid-15th, very moved towards the members of the family of Visconti, governors of Milan. Oldest of these existing decks of Tarot was perhaps painted to celebrate a marriage of century of mid-15th joining the reigning families of Visconti and Sforza of Milan, probably painted by Bonifacio Bembo and others miniaturists of the school of Ferrare. Original cards, 35 are in the library of Pierpont Morgan, 26 cards are at Accademia Carrare, 13 are with the Colleoni house, 4 cards, devil, the tower, three of swords, and the knight of the coins of currency being lost or probably not ever made. This deck of Visconti-Sforza, which was largely reproduced variable quality, combines the costumes of the swords, the bars, the coins of currency and the cups, and the cards king of face, the queen, the knight and the page with the assets which reflect the conventional iconography of time to a significant degree.

The cards of Tarot remained for a long time privileged with the aristocratic class of the company. The catholic church and the majority of the civil governments by practice did not condemn of the cards of tarot during the history of the beginnings of the tarot. In fact, in some jurisdictions, of the cards of tarot laws were specifically exempted prohibiting differently the regular cards of play. However, some sermons inveighing against the evil inherent in the cards can be traced at the 14th century.

Because the cards of Tarot earliest were painted with the hand, the number of produced decks is regarded as to have been rather small. Only after the invention of the series production of press of the cards became possible. The decks of this era survive of various cities in France the various hours, most known in this context being the town of Marseilles, in southernmost France perhaps of the 16th century early, although the real examples of survival are not earlier than the 17th century. At approximately same time, the name Tarocchi appeared.

A farspread general, now traditional, assumption declared that the final shape of the Tarot with structure +22 of A, 4x14 was arranged Ca 1450. This opinion is based on the suggestion, that the survival which 68 cards of Bembo had in the 6 added replacements of assets only for the cards earlier lost. An alternative design declares that the decks early Tarot would have usually 70 cards, and that the deck by Bonifacio Bembo has to only lack two cards. Of value for the situation of the development is the documentary card of history of Tarot, which was composed on the basis of the common ground of various researchers.