Visconti Sforza

This new edition presents an 80-card deck with expanded guidebook in a deluxe box. 60-page guidebook by Stuart R. Kaplan, includes color illustrations of the tarocchi cards. The deck consists of the preserved, original Visconti-Sforza tarocchi cards that have survived from the 15th century (Milan, Italy). The deck includes two bonus cards with portraits of Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza. The 78-card deck consists of full-color facsimile reproductions of 74 surviving original Visconti-Sforza tarocchi cards that have survived from the 15th century (Milan, Italy).

Four cards have been painstakingly recreated to replace those missing from the original deck; The Devil, The Tower, Three of Swords and Knight of Coins. The cards, which have no titles or numbering, depict daily life in medieval Milan through allegorical images. The original cards can be found in three different places. Thirty-five of the original cards are in the archives of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. Twenty-six surviving cards are at the Accademia Carrara in Italy, and thirteen cards are at the Casa Colleoni in Bergamo, Italy.

Contents: 80 cards
Created by: US Games Systems
Language: English