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    Tarot (/ˈtæroʊ/, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various...
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    Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby practitioners use tarot cards to purportedly gain insight into the past, present or future. They formulate...
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    The Visconti-Sforza Tarot is used collectively to refer to incomplete sets of approximately 15 decks from the middle of the 15th century, now located...
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    The Sola Busca tarot is the earliest completely extant example of a 78-card tarot deck. It is also the earliest tarot deck in which all the plain suit...
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    Playing cards (in Italian: carte da gioco) have been in Italy since the late 14th century. Until the mid 19th century, Italy was composed of many smaller...
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    Playing card (category Tarot)
    central and Eastern Europe and Italy. Customised Tarot card decks are also used for divination; including tarot card reading and cartomancy. Asia, too, has...
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    Michael Dummett (category Tarot card games)
    he also wrote extensively on the history of card games, particularly on tarot card games. He was married to the political activist Ann Dummett from 1951...
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  • 18th-century French encyclopaedia by Diderot, de D’Alembert et de Jaucourt. Tarot, jeu et magie, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1984 ISBN 2717716998 Jeux de hasard...
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  • Dal Negro (category Tarot)
    Dal Negro is an Italian company that produces playing cards, tarot cards, divination cards, chess, backgammon, roulette wheels, and toys for children...
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    his mistress Agnese del Maino (1401–1465). The oldest extant Tarot decks, then called carte da trionfi, were probably commissioned by Filippo Maria Visconti...
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