Sola-Busca
Historical ancient tarot deck also known as Illuminati or Enlightened Ancient Tarot.
creator unknown · 2002
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The record
As of the 2nd of August 2002 I am the befuddled owner of the interesting, if somewhat obscure, (to me at least!) I Tarocchi Illuminati tarot deck, also known as Illuminating Ancient Tarot, Enlightened Ancient Tarot, Ancient Enlightened Tarot (at Amazon.co.uk), Ancient Warriors Tarot (so called in the preface of the book 'Sola Busca Tarot' by Sofia Di Vincenzo) and of course Sola-Busca Tarot in honour of the Sola-Busca family, who were the last ones to own the original deck. Published in 1995, this deck is a replica of a 1900s reproduction of the original, which was created in Italy in the 1500s. The Encyclopaedia of Tarot Volume 1 by Stuart R. Kaplan tells us about the original pack: "Sola Busca. The heavily colored Sola Busca tarocchi pack - the only complete extant pack of seventy-eight tarocchi cards engraved on metal during the late fifteenth century, possibly of Ferrarese or Venetian origin - contains trump cards featuring warriors of antiquity and Latin inscriptions. The twenty-two trumps are single figures based upon ancient history and, except for The Fool, have no counterparts in modern trumps. The name of a classical person, often barely recognizable due to misspellings b
The cards
