Cagliostro
Historic Italian tarot originally published as Il Destino Svelato in 1912.
creator unknown · 1981
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The record
Excerpts From the LWB copyright 1981 by Stuart R. Kaplan Introduction: The Cagliostro Tarot deck was first published in 1912 in an Italian edition entitled Il Destino Svelato Dal Tarocco. The publisher, Modiano S.p.A. is one of Italys leading printers whose operations in the manufacture of playing cards dates back to the 19th century under the name La Concordia. A fire in 1913 and a bombardment in 1944 destroyed part of the Modiano archives. Nevertheless, it has been possible to ascertain that the original card designs for the Cagliostro tarot deck were prepared by Bruno Sigon, and Italian artist in Modianos employ. Sigon relied heavily upon the work of Papus, pseudonym of Dr. Gerard Encausse, the French occultist and author of le Tarot des Bohemiens (1889) and Le Tarot Divinatoire (1909). Both books contain the twenty-two Major Arcana cards in Egyptian style by Gabriel Goulinat. Le Tarot Divinatoire also includes the fifty-six Minor Arcana cards. There exists a close resemblance between some of the Major Arcana cards by Sigon and the designs by Goulinat, but Sigon takes various liberties with figures, facial features, various poses and symbols in order to present his own interp
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