Tarot Notes (OLD VERSION ... - 1500)
composed by Lothar Teikemeier, last updated 06.12.2012
The following is just the menu of the older installation. The links lead to the old articles. As this list was led till the year 1500, this still has some value. However, there had been various new findings in the recent years for the period 1465-1500, which are not included in the current state of the list (September 2013)
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Start Documents Analyses 1423: Imperatori - first note March 1425: Birth of Bianca Maria Visconti May 1425: Parisina killed June 1425: Trionfo Filippo Visconti (Michelino Deck ?) 1438: Council in Ferrara 1439: Council in Florence (real Trionfo - probably no cards) Burchiello Autumn 1441 Bianca Maria Visconti in Ferrara (small Trionfo at her arrival - no cards) 14 Figure, 1.1.1441 (Marriage Trionfo projected ?) October 1441 Marriage Bianca Maria Visconti (Cary-Yale Tarocchi?, Marriage-Trionfo ?) Marcello is already near to Francesco Sforza December 1441: Leonello new Signore in Milano 01 1442/1 Ferrara/Sagramoro (February 1442 / Trionfo projected ?) 02 1442/2 Ferrara/Kids (small Trionfo for the kids according to the interests of their mother (?) 1443 Imperatori - 1st reappearance 1443 Real Trionfo in Naples Alfonso of Aragon (no cards known) Pause (1443 - 1450) August 1447: Filippo Maria Visconti dies Decembrio is in Ferrara 1447 Decembrio writes "Vita ..." Vita di Filippo Maria Visconti early 1449: Marcello with Francesco Sforza in the region of Milan Scipio Caraffa didn't know Trionfi decks 03 1449/1 Marcello letter (Nov. 1449) 25.2.1450: Francesco Sforza occupies Milan 04 1450/1 Ferrara/Sagramoro 16.3.1450 Trionfi cards are paid 25.3.1450 Leonello visits Milan After 8 years pause suddenly Trionfi decks production in Ferrara Imperatori - 2nd reappearance October 1450: Leonello dies Borso new signore in Ferrara 05 1450/2 Florence December 1450: Trionfi allowed (Florence) 06 1450/3 Sforza letter December 1450: Difficulties to get a Trionfi deck 07 1451/1 Ferrara/Sagramoro Borso's Trionfo projected ? 07b 1452/1 Siena/Emperor-visit 08 1452/1 Malatesta/Sforza The letter signals a Trionfi production in Cremona, perhaps as a preparation for a Trionfo August 1453: Real Trionfo in Milan The peace of Lodi is near (9th of April 1454) Probably Borso prepares already before some Trionfi decks production in series from February till April 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 13b 1455/1 Padua / preaching 14 1456/1 Ferrara/Trotti Trotti's comment signals, that now Trionfi is (at least in Ferrara) a well known game. 15 1456/2 Ferrara/Sagramoro Last Sagramoro document 16 1457/1 Ferrara/70 cards 17 1457/2 Ferrara/Vicenza Later Notes (not complete)29 Mantova 1465, inventoryMinchiate (since 1466) 29b Pavia Castle Frescoes 1469 29c Ferrara/Modena Bonacossi production 30 Polismagna relates to the Decembrio Manuscript 31 Vita di San Bernardino 1472 32 Naples 1473 (Aragon court) 33 Naples 1474 (Aragon court, Beatrice) 33b Rome 1474 - 1478 / Import from Florence 34 Milan 1475, Letter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza 34b Fabriano 1476, request for allowance 35 Bologna 1477, printed decks 36b Recanati ca. 1480 37 Naples 1482, "Cartaio" Francesco 38 French dictionary, 1482 38b Cicognara-note (? forgery) 39 Brescia, 1488 - allowance 40 Salo, 1489 - allowance 41 Bergamo 1491 - allowance 42 Letter Ippolito d'Este, 1492 43 Rene d'Anjou II, France, 1496 44 Reggio, 1500 - allowance ********************** |  |
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Repeated Note: When Ross Caldwell and me in 2003 started to collect Trionfi notes between 1442-1463, we had about 27/28 entries (which I nowadays would count as 31). The major part were the documents of Ferrara, which were collected by Gherardo Ortalli and Adriano Franceschini in the "Prince and the Playing Cards" (1996), after the base laying works of Michael Dummett and Stuart Kaplan around 1980. This collection included 2 notes about Trionfi cards in Florence, found by Franco Pratesi in his earlier work (allowances of the Trionfi game in 1450 and 1463). A graphical representation of this time (with 27 entries) shows the dominance of Ferrarese documents (in black) with a few notes only from other locations (in red; see picture to the right) In the period 2004 till October 2011 it was possible to add 4 further notes (Siena 1452, Padova 1455, Ancona c. 1460 and Valerio Marcello c. 1460), mainly thanks to information given by Thierry Depaulis. Franco Pratesi started his new article series in November 2011. Since then the list has gotten 67 new documents till September 2012 (65 of them found by Franco Pratesi, one, now the oldest of September 1440, by Thierry Depaulis, and another one by Veber Gulinelli, who controlled the earlier work of Franceschini and found an overlooked document) and nearly all are related to Florence or its surrounding. A small book (118 pages) was published around Christmas 2012, Franco Pratesi: "Playing Card Trade in 15th Century Florence" as IPCS Paper No. 7 (ISSN 0305-2133). It contains some of the articles, which before had appeared at this website, those, which treat the early time of 15th century. Thierry Depaulis commented in his foreword: "This book is a landmark in the history of early playing cards in Italy". Well, maybe not the book, but the research is clearly a landmark in various interests. For the collection of early Trionfi notes it somehow means, that we have within the year 2012 about 200 % more data for the period 1440-1462 than mankind had collected in the 200 years before. Added later: In August 2013 the new report of Arnold und Doris Esch: "Aus der Frühgeschichte der Spielkarte. Der Import von carte da giocare und trionfi nach Rom." in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 2013, 88. Jahrgang, p. 41-53, arrived in our redaction. It contains 106 new references to Trionfi decks, which all were found in the customs registers of the city Rome for the period 1453-1465. With this the number of all earlier Trionfi cards records has been doubled and should have reached then c. 210 (from which a few are only considered to be "Trionfi card notes" and don't contain the word "Trionfi" or something similar). *********** I'd started to sort the new Trionfi card documents overview in October 2012. Articles will be possibly changed according improvements in research. |
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