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01  1442/1  Ferrara/Sagramoro
02  1442/2  Ferrara/Kids
03  1449/1  Marcello letter
 04  1450/1  Ferrara/Sagramoro
05  1450/2  Florence
06  1450/3  Sforza letter
 07  1451/1  Ferrara/Sagramoro
08  1452/1  Malatesta/Sforza
 09  1454/1  Ferrara/Sagramoro
10  1454/2  Ferrara/Sagramoro
11  1454/3  Ferrara/production
12  1454/4  Ferrara/production
13  1454/5  Ferrara/production
14  1456/1  Ferrara/Trotti
15  1456/2  Ferrara/Sagramoro
16  1457/1  Ferrara/70 cards
 17  1457/2  Ferrara/Vicenza
18  1458/1  Ferrara/Vicenza
19  1459/1  Ferrara/production
20  1459/2  Bologna
21  1460/1  Ferrara/Vicenza
22  1460/2  Ferrara/Vicenza
23  1460/3  Ferrara/Vicenza
24  1460/4  Ferrara/Vicenza
25  1460/5  Ferrara/Vicenza
26  1461/1  Ferrara/Vicenza
27  1463/1  Ferrara /Vicenza
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References
The Name Trionfi
in Context with Playing Cards (1441 - 1463)

Document 20

The only reference to Trionfi cards between 1452 and 1463 outside of Ferrara.

Quote from Dummett from a Bolognese document of 1459

which speaks of a pack of triumph cards having been among the items stolen from a shopkeeper in Bologna. The document is apparently discussed in two sources, which are cited in footnote (1) below, but which I have not yet been able to see.] Il pił antico riferimento accertato a carte da tarocchi a Bologna risale al 1459, quando un mazo di tarocchi risulta fra gli oggetti rubati a un marcante in una rapina (1).

(1) Cfr. EMILIO ORIOLI, "Sulle carte da giuoco a Bologna nel secolo XV", Il libro e la stampa, anno II (n.s.), 1908, pp. 109-19, a p. 112, e ALBANO SORBELLI, "Un 'antica stamperia di carte da giuoco," Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1940, pp. 189-97, alle pp. 192-3.

[Dummett 1993, Chapter IX, cited at the webpage of the Accademia del Tarocchino Bolognese]

Preliminary translation
(by Ross Gregory Caldwell)

"The oldest definite reference to tarocchi cards in Bologna comes in 1459, when a tarocchi deck shows up among the objects stolen from a merchant in a theft."

[It should be noted that Dummett is here using the term "tarocchi" loosely, since the earliest attestation of this word occurs in 1516, in Ferrara. The original source must have made mention of "carte da trionfi" or something similar.]

Thanks to Thierry Depaulis for some further information to this point.
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