[edit] Tarot Timeline
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[edit] Tarot Related Art and History
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[edit] 1501-1525
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[edit] 1501-1525
- Great Italian wars results in French entry into much of northern Italy. Milan under French rule from 1499.
- 1508–1512 Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
- 1513 – Niccolò Machiavelli writes “The Prince”, that will not be published until 1532. According to Machiavelli, the stability of a state's government is the most important good and even extreme and cruel actions are justified if they are necessary in order to preserve stability. One of the examples that are often quoted in the treatise is Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI.
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[edit] 1526-1550
- 1527 Publishing of "Il Chaos del Triperuno" by Teofilo Folengo (the author used the nom-de-plume "Merlin Cocai". The book contains five sonnets in the stile of "Tarocchi Appropriati". One of the sonnets makes reference to each one of the 22 trumps. The Chaos was published in Venice by Giovanni Antonio da Sabbio. English translation.
- 1540 - Francesco Marcolini publishes in Venice his card-based fortune book: “Le sorti intitolate giardino d’i pensieri” (“The oracle called garden of thoughts”)
- 1550 ca - Alberto Lollio from Ferrara writes his "Invective against the game of Tarot" and Vincenzo Imperiali writes his reply.
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[edit] 1526-1550
- 1527 - Sack of Rome. The mutinous troops of Emperor Charles V conquered the city and spoiled it of any precious object. Churches, shrines, monuments were looted and destroyed. Following the sack, Rome's population hit its lowest at about 10,000.
- 1545 - Beginning of the Council of Trent
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[edit] 1551-1576
- 1557 - Catelin Geoffroy Tarot (Lyon)
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[edit] 1551-1576
- 1559 First edition of the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" ("List of Prohibited Books"). Divination and fortune-books are forbidden.
- 1563 - End of the Council of Trent. The council was the most impressive embodiment of the ideals of the Counter-Reformation. It issued condemnations on what it defined as Protestant heresies and defined Church teachings in the areas of Scripture and Tradition, Original Sin, Justification, Sacraments, the Eucharist in Holy Mass and the veneration of saints.
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[edit] 1576-1600
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[edit] 1576-1600
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