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How to avoid purchase of unintended decks, written mainly from a historical and typological point of view. This blog is intended to be helpful to beginners in particular.

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Just a few notes to myself, out of the sequential order of my 'normal' blog posts

I will return to the tarot deck of Bologna later on, when I have assembled my mind and my health decently, but just a note to myself here: Until 1725, Bolognese tarot had two female Popes (no Empress) and two male Popes (no Emperor), and a long succession of Popes had no reason to comment on this stylistic choice, until 1725. The Popesses and the Popes were replaced with four Moors, since exotification of foreigners was apparently all nice and dandy at the time. Bologna, boasting the world'
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