Includes: a Trump Deck, w/ Booklet of Artist's Descriptions & Corresponding Poetry 

22 Major Arcana + Title Card & Additional Card with Artists Listed 

Booklet: 4.72" x 6.69 in (12 x 17 cm), 96 Pages - has B&W Images of All 22 Cards 

Corresponding Poetry by Jari Casagrande 

Booklet in English - (Translated by Arnell Ando) 

Project Overseen by Tarot Historian Giovanni Pelosini 

Hosted by Morena Poltronieri, in Collaboration with Ernesto Fazioli 

Published by Museo Dei Tarocchi - Mutus Liber, 2015 

Printed on Matte Cardstock - (Back Design Not Reversible) 

Card Size: 2.75 in x 5 in (7 x 13 cm) 

Limited, Special Edition of 100 Sets 

Set Comes in Ribbed, Corrugated Box with Art on Lid (+ Museo's Hot Wax Seal) 

Cover Art by Jessica Angiulli 

Cost: €65.00 + Italian Postage 

Description: This unusual collaborative project harkens back to a time in Tarot history when nobility would enjoy playing clever parlor games with the cards. The accompanying 96-page booklet gives a brief overview of the historical context from which the hosts of Tarocchi Appropriati (Morena Poltronieri & Ernesto Fazioli) were inspired to pay homage to such ancient Tarot word games. Written documentation still in existence from 1668 - 1725 Bologna shares how these challenging games were performed in playful competition amongst friends. As Morena Poltronieri explains: 

The “Appropriate Tarots” were presented in Bologna (Italy) and Lodovico Frati, in a manuscript of 1668, wrote about this particular system of reading. ‘The Trumps of Appropriate tarocchini’, were composed of two different parts: the first part listed the correspondence between the Trumps and the ladies of the past, and the second portion supplies in prose an explanation of the proposed correspondence. From this ancient system of reading was born this project: "Appropriate Tarot." Like in the past, the 22 Major Arcana inspire poetry - one poem for each card. 

We are invited, along with this select group of artists to revisit an ancient era in Bologna, when a group of refined ladies gathered together to play parlor games (often 'tongue' in cheek') with hand-painted Tarocchi cards, in order to test wits and lyrical skills with insight or parody on public figures & with social commentary, relating to each Trump card. 

The 22 Major Arcana created for this deck by various international artists are presented in B&W in the soft-cover booklet along with the artist's own interpretations, which are then followed by inspired prose by Jari Casagrande. This poet also created the IX Hermit card. Renowned Tarot historian Giovanni Pelosini shares an interesting essay on the history of this game during Renaissance Italy, as well as contributing the XIV Temperance Card. 

The artists are listed towards the beginning of the 96-page booklet (and on an additional title card), with their biographies in the index section at the back.