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MItelli's Tarot 1660 Tarot Kit

Mitelli's Tarot 1660

$140.00

“A flight of fancy, a jewel of creativity, a perfect stylistic exercise”- Gioradino Berit

Around 1660, Italian engraver and creator of board games Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Bologna 1634 – 1718), produced a true masterpiece of Baroque art for Count Filippo Bentivoglio. That deck was titled “Giuoco di Carte, con Nuova Forma di Tarocchini” (Card Game, with a new form of Tarot). It consisted in six sheets with two groups of eleven cards and four groups of ten cards, for an amount of 62 cards. This is the Tarocchino Bolognese, absolutely identical to the traditional pack of Tarocchi except for the elimination of 16 cards: 2, 3, 4 and 5 of each suite.

A few decades after Mitelli’s death around 1750, an anonymous Bolognese card-maker, signed Alla Trombetta, reprinted and hand-painted the 62 cards in a number unknown of copies, putting them on the market for use by card-players. In 2017, after intense research, Italian historian Giordano Berti published a splendid reproduction of the Mitelli’s Tarocchino preserved at the National Library of Paris.

In this splendid limited edition, the colors, dimensions and back of the cards perfectly reflect the original. Even the marbled paper that covers the box is a faithful reproduction of the marbled paper that was produced in Bologna at the beginning of the eighteenth century. This version has been printed in only 900 copies. Each copy is numbered and hand signed by Giordano Berti on a certificate of authenticity.

 In the Deluxe box, along with the deck, there is a companion booklet in English written by Giordano Berti: 118 pages in full color, with historic introduction, life and works of Mitelli, contents of the images, divinatory meanings and methods to read the cards. The Standard box includes a leaflet with the divinatory meanings of the 62 cards and some methods of reading.

Specs
  • Publisher: Rinascimento and Araba Fenice, Italy, 2017
  • Curator: Giordano Berti.
  • Limited edition: 900 numbered and signed copies.
  • Deck: 62 cards + 1 warranty with number and signature of Giordano Berti.
  • Card format: 2.5 x 5 inches
  • Deluxe box design: Letizia Rivetti.
  • Packaging: “RINASCIMENTO – Italian Style Art”. Handmade. Book-shaped box. Outside in blue marbled paper. Velvet interior.
  • The Deluxe box, includes a companion booklet in English written by Giordano Berti: 118 PAGES FULL COLOR, with historic introduction, life and works of Mitelli, contents of the images, divinatory meanings and methods to read the cards.
  • The Standard box includes a leaflet with the divinatory meanings of the 62 cards and some methods of reading.
Publisher

Rinascimento Italian Style Art is a creator, publisher and artistic team founded by historian of esotericism in art Giordano Berti and art designer Letizia Rivetti. The project is committed to historical study and reproduction of ancient Tarots, rare playing cards and oracular decks.

 

 

Giordano Berti

Giordano is a writer and historian of esotericism in Art, known throughout the world for historical studies on the Tarot and designer of educational games

Letizia Rivetti

Letizia is an art designer, founder of ArtStudioLetizia, creator of spectacular environments, art installations and art objects.

Artist Letizia Rivetti

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Glenn Francis
Mitelli's Tarocchi

Mitelli’s Tarocchi deck, ca. 1660, was printed from engraved copperplates. As a result, the images are more naturalistic and fluid than the woodblock printing usually found in Tarot decks. Mitelli exploits this characteristic, with sinuous lines, billowing fabric, wind-blown hair, etc. Many of the figures are caught in action; even in repose they often depict a latent energy. This particular deck in 62 cards, edited by Giordano Berti, is printed in subtle, beautiful earth tones over an ecru-colored base; russet, pine-green, brown and pale pink seem to predominate, with a few washes of blue. The cardstock is really lovely; flexible, but thick enough; papery, with a very light polish. The Major Arcana images are worth pondering, different than the French decks, yet quite familiar: Il Bagatto plays a drum, and has Le Fou’s dog at his heels; 2 male popes and emperors sadly replace La Papesse and L’Empress; L’ermite is a winged angel on crutches, while L’estoille, an old man with 7 stars barely visible in the print, simultaneously carries L’ermite’s lantern and Le Fou’s shoulder pack. The horses, oddly, look like they presented a struggle to Mitelli - horizontal beings in a vertical card format. Their heads are quite small.

The deck I purchased came with a small leaflet that briefly describes a “Bolognese” method of drawing cards, and the divinatory meanings of these cards, which may seriously contradict the evidence of your senses if you’re accustomed to an open-reading style.

The deck is quite beautiful in general, and has a fantastic tactile quality which must be experienced. All cards should have this cardstock. I do wish that the BnF stamps could have been excised, as is commonly done on reproductions. Much of the time the stamps are buried in darker print areas, but in some cases they are prominent to the point of becoming a design element. And the box, as beautiful and nicely designed as it is, is pointlessly over-sized; spacious enough for your deck, plus a crystal, candle, and incense, if you wish.

As usual, I received exemplary service from TarotArts, indeed perfection. You already know how good their website is!

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Glenn Francis
Mitelli's Tarocchi

Mitelli’s Tarocchi deck, ca. 1660, was printed from engraved copperplates. As a result, the images are more naturalistic and fluid than the woodblock printing usually found in Tarot decks. Mitelli exploits this characteristic, with sinuous lines, billowing fabric, wind-blown hair, etc. Many of the figures are caught in action; even in repose they often depict a latent energy. This particular deck in 62 cards, edited by Giordano Berti, is printed in subtle, beautiful earth tones over an ecru-colored base; russet, pine-green, brown and pale pink seem to predominate, with a few washes of blue. The cardstock is really lovely; flexible, but thick enough; papery, with a very light polish. The Major Arcana images are worth pondering, different than the French decks, yet quite familiar: Il Bagatto plays a drum, and has Le Fou’s dog at his heels; 2 male popes and emperors sadly replace La Papesse and L’Empress; L’ermite is a winged angel on crutches, while L’estoille, an old man with 7 stars barely visible in the print, simultaneously carries L’ermite’s lantern and Le Fou’s shoulder pack. The horses, oddly, look like they presented a struggle to Mitelli - horizontal beings in a vertical card format. Their heads are quite small.

The deck I purchased came with a small leaflet that briefly describes a “Bolognese” method of drawing cards, and the divinatory meanings of these cards, which may seriously contradict the evidence of your senses if you’re accustomed to an open-reading style.

The deck is quite beautiful in general, and has a fantastic tactile quality which must be experienced. All cards should have this cardstock. I do wish that the BnF stamps could have been excised, as is commonly done on reproductions. Much of the time the stamps are buried in darker print areas, but in some cases they are prominent to the point of becoming a design element. And the box, as beautiful and nicely designed as it is, is pointlessly over-sized; spacious enough for your deck, plus a crystal, candle, and incense, if you wish.

As usual, I received exemplary service from TarotArts, indeed perfection. You already know how good their website is!