Tarocchi di Bacchus

Creator(s): Luigi+Giulia Scapini, Giordano Berti
Date: 2005
Country: Italy
Publisher: Dal Negro
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:
Type: other
Reference: aeclectic






Notes:
The  Major Arcana narrate the birth of Bacchus and his adventures on earth. Each court card represents one of the top winemaking countries in the world. The Numeral Cards refer to the agricultural, business and recreational activities linked to wine.

The large-size cards came in a bright-red box with an instruction booklet in English and Italian. The illustrations are soft rather than sharp with almost a watercolor effect. 


Some cards are signed "Guilia Scapini", some signed "Luigi Scapini", some signed "Luigi Scapini Guilia Scapini", some signed "GL Scapini", and some signed "LG Scapini".

Looking at the ones with the first two signatures the differences in their artistic styles becomes apparent: Luigi has the rich colours, strong lines and  bony figures. Guilia's cards have less muscular figures, paler colours and a lot of white left in the backgrounds of some of her images. In the cards signed with both their names or both their initials the partner whose initial comes first is dominant.

Tarocchi di Dario Fo

Creator(s): Dario Fo, Dominique Gobbo
Date: 1999
Country: Italy
Publisher: Dal Negro
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:
Type: other
Reference: aeclectic







Notes:
This tarot deck is conceived by Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Laureate in Literature. The pictures were jointly created by Dario Fo and Dominique Gobbo, an Italian graphic designer.

The inspiration behind this deck was to create a series of cards with the Holy Year as its theme. The Tarot scenes are inspired by Renaissance art, and are framed inside the card.

The cards are large (3 3/8" x 6") and came in a slip-case box which includes a 96-page paperback in Italian and English.

Tarot Lukumi

Creator(s): Luigi Scapini, Emanuele Coltro
Date: 2003
Country: Italy
Publisher: Dal Negro
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:
Type: other
Reference: tarotpassages

  





Notes:
Anthropoligist and writer Tata Emanuele Coltro Guidi conceptualized this deck, seeking to link the deities, faith, spirituality, and practices of Cuban Santeria (Regla de Ocha or Regla Lukumi) into the framework of occult tarot. The illustrations were rendered by Luigi Scapini.

Each card is dedicated to an Orisha, an Elder in the religion, or a certain Pataki. A Pataki is a tale that explains the life of an Orisha, or a situation in the Orishas life that teaches a moral lesson. For example the Enamorados, "The Lovers" depicts the tale of Chango, Ochun and Obba; how Ochun tricked Obba into slicing her ear and placing it into Chango's food.

The Majors have Spanish titles over which the symbols and the name of the Afro-Cuban Orisha are superimposed . The four suits are: Bastos for Wands, Copas for Cups, Espadas for Swords and Oros for Coins. The court cards are: Rey, the King; Reina, the Queen; Caballo, the Knight and Sota for the Page.

The reversible backs show the believed Ancestors Santero and Santera, Negro Fransisco and Negra Thomasa, separated by Cowrie Shells on a red background.

Il Tarocco delle Vetrate

Creator(s): Luigi Scapini
Date: 1997
Country: Italy
Publisher: Dal Negro
Numer of Cards: 78
ISBN: 
Type: Marseilles
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 578-579







 Notes:
 Luigi Scapini worked with his daughter Giulia to create the Tarocco delle Vetrate (Stained Glass Tarot). As a professor of art history Scapini is well aquainted with Gothic stained-glas windows and with the Aristotelian and Tomistic thought their symbology is imbued with. The early tarot decks appeared near the end of the Gothic era, which saw the developing sciences of stained glass windows and manuscript painting in Europe.

Scapini believes that the esoteric nature of the tarot is derived largely from Neoplatonic thought and the medieval Cabbala. Scapini describes three primary kinds of energy represented in his deck: iod as the active component, the energy of heh connected with the world of feelings and vau, which joins iod and heh and connects with the world of balance.


Each card is bordered with a sandstone arch. The minor cards in this deck use a huge variety of beautiful patterns, ornamentation and colors. The back design shows awindow set with clear glass rounds.

Tarocco Bizzarro

Creator(s): Franco Bruna
Date: 2000 
Country: Italy 
Publisher: Dal Negro 
Number of Cards: 78 
ISBN:
Type: Piemontese 
Reference: Dal Negro








Notes:
Italian caricaturist Franco Bruna, who was known for his caricatures of local politicians and celebrities re-interprets, with an ironic twist, the classic symbology of Tarot cards from the Piedmont region.

Romeo and Juliet Tarot (Shakespeare Tarot)

Creator(s): Luigi Scapini
Date: 1990, reprint 2002
Country: Italy
Publisher: Dal Negro
Numer of Cards: 78
ISBN: 800-1-097424-06-1
Type: other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 515-517








Notes:
Although the title of the deck is the Tarot of Romeo and Juliet (Tarocchi di Guiletta e Romeo) the scenes on the cards are from all the works of Shakespeare. The background of the Major Arcana and the back design are gold-figured, in reference to the Renaissance cards of Northern Italy. Titles on the cards are in Italian and English.

The 2002 edition is smaller-sized (relatively speaking) . In fact, the deck is about the size of a standard Waite-Smith deck... but clearly smaller than the 1990 "deluxe" edition. The deck is also known as the Shakespeare Tarot.